Üllői út
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Üllői út (Üllői Avenue, lit. means "Road to Üllő", Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈylːøːji ˈuːt]) is a major transport artery in Budapest, Hungary. Üllői út is the longest avenue in Budapest. It is 15.6 km long and nearly perfectly straight.
It starts at the edge of
Határ út (pre-1950 city limit) and the present (post-1950) city limit. See also: Greater Budapest
The
Ferihegy Airport, the most important international airport of Hungary. It also forms the boundary between Ferencváros and Józsefváros
.
Üllő means "anvil" in Hungarian.
Among its notable points are
- Semmelweis University
- Museum of Applied Arts
- Semmelweis University Clinics
- Szent István Hospital and Szent László Hospital (together Üllői Avenue Clinics, the largest hospital complex in Budapest)
- Stadion Albert Flórián (former Üllői úti stadion/Stadion Üllői Avenue)
- autobusstation
- Attila József microdistrict (built 1957–1967), the first Soviet-style housing estate in Budapest
- garden suburb built before and around WWI, named after Sándor Wekerle, its central square planned by the architect Károly Kós.
Sources
- Budapest City Atlas, Dimap, Budapest, 2006, ISBN 963-9549-15-0CM
47°26′47″N 19°10′14″E / 47.44639°N 19.17056°E
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