8 historic sites
Castles in Hungary
Budapest Buda Castle crowns a limestone ridge above the Danube, flanked by Baroque palaces and medieval ruins.
hungary · Pest County
Royal Palace of Gödöllő
Empress Sisi's favourite residence outside Vienna — the largest Baroque palace in Hungary, stripped bare by Soviet forces, now restored to its imperial grandeur
hungary · Budapest
Vajdahunyad Castle
A century of Hungarian architecture condensed into one fairy-tale castle, built from cardboard and rebuilt in stone
hungary · Danube Bend (Pest County)
Visegrád Citadel
The Cloud Castle above the Danube Bend — Visegrád Citadel (Fellegvár) crowns the forested hill above Visegrád Royal Palace, built by Béla IV after the Mongol invasion to hold the Hungarian Holy Crown, with some of the most dramatic Danube views in Hungary
hungary · Nógrád County, Northern Hungary
Hollókő Castle
Castle above a living UNESCO village — Hollókő Castle sits on the hill above one of Hungary's best-preserved Palóc ethnic-minority settlements, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage village in 1987, and the combination of castle ruins and living folk culture below is unlike any other site in this collection
hungary · Budapest
Buda Castle
Budapest's crown above the Danube — a royal palace, a UNESCO panorama and a thousand years of Hungarian history
hungary · Komárom-Esztergom County, Danube Bend
Esztergom Castle
Hungary's first royal capital — birthplace of King Stephen and cradle of a nation
hungary · Northern Hungary
Eger Castle
Where 2,000 Hungarians held off 80,000 Ottomans — the siege of 1552 that became Hungary's national legend
hungary · Pest County, Danube Bend
Visegrád Royal Palace
The Renaissance palace of Matthias Corvinus — once the most splendid court north of the Alps