Small Boulevard (Budapest)

Vámház körút (literally "Customs House Boulevard") began with a German name, Fleischhacker Gass, in the 1780s, which was Magyarized to Mészáros utca ("Butcher's Street") in the 19th century.

When the Budapest's central customs house was built (at what is now Fővám tér) in 1875, the road's name was changed accordingly.

In 1874, Budapest's Public Works Council decided to divide that road, creating the Kiskörút in three sections.

The main sights of Kiskörút are the Dohány Street Synagogue (Romantic, 1859), the second largest such building in the world (after the one in New York) with the Jewish Museum and the Holocaust Memorial, the Hungarian National Museum (Classicistic, 1847), and the Grand Market Hall (Nagyvásárcsarnok, Neo-gothic, 1896).

Along Kiskörút, remnants of the old City Wall can still be seen (e.g. at Ferenczy István utca corner), although most are already hidden in the courtyards of residential buildings.

Grand and Small Boulevards of Budapest
View of the Károly körút part (before the 2010/11 renovation), from the crossing of Károly körút–Dohány street (utca), just a few steps from Europe's biggest and the world's second largest synagogue, the Dohány Street Synagogue
The Hungarian National Museum at the Múzeum körút part