Széchenyi Chain Bridge (Széchenyi lánchíd) travel guide

One of the emblems of the Hungarian capital, the Chain Bridge was Budapest’s first permanent bridge across the Danube. Today it provides the shortest connection between Castle Hill and the shopping streets of Pest

The bridge was designed by the English engineer William Tierney Clark and built between 1839 and 1849 under the supervision of the Scottish architect Adam Clark. Adam Clark also supplied the plans for the tunnel to Krisztinaváros (see below). The 375m/410yd-long and almost 16m/18yd-wide bridge is suspended from chains that are fixed to massive pillars 48m/157ft in height. The stone lions lying on pedestals at the bridgeheads are the work of János Marschalkó. Whether or not the lions had tongues or not was long a matter for discussion in Budapest: their creator claimed – perhaps as a joke – that you had to stand directly opposite the animals in order to see their tongues. Along with all of Budapest’s other bridges, the Chain Bridge was blown up by German troops in January 1945, but was already re-opened to traffic on 21 November 1949, exactly 100 years after its first inauguration.

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