Hidden Places in Budapest, Hungary
Vintage vibes by the waterfront, a perfect escape from the hustle and bustle of the big city. The 800-metre-long island, located on the Szentendre branch of the Danube, can only be reached by water.
Time didn’t really exist on Luppa Island for a long while. In the 1930s someone wound up a sluggish alarm clock, but even that had stopped ticking by the late ’80s at the latest. A Danube-side holiday republic: Bauhaus, boats, mosquitoes, a row of plane trees…
Peter Luppa (1838–1904), the descendant of a wealthy Serbian family from Pomáz, was an engineer, a member of parliament, and quite the adventurer: in 1857 he and his fellow students rowed down the Danube all the way to the Black Sea. He planted fruit trees on the island named after him, and he also liked to come here to hunt. The island’s name is sometimes written as Lupa, although it originally contains two p’s.
There is no bridge, an ancient ferry carries you across into timelessness. The boats to the island depart from the Ebihal snack bar in Budakalász.
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