Rooms with stories
Every corner seems to have arrived from a different decade. Found objects become part of the architecture.
A courtyard, a maze of rooms, found objects, music and light. Szimpla Kert helped define Budapest's ruin-pub culture — and still feels like its own small universe.
Szimpla began in the early 2000s as an experiment in reusing overlooked spaces. Its current home on Kazinczy utca opened in 2004.
Every corner seems to have arrived from a different decade. Found objects become part of the architecture.
The courtyard shifts from a place to look around to a busy meeting point after dark.
Set in Budapest's District VII, among residential streets, courtyards and the city's layered history.