Vajdahunyad Castle description and photos - Hungary: Budapest (Topic)

Vajdahunyad Castle description and photos - Hungary: Budapest. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The name in English is Vajdahunyad Castle.

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In the 14th district of Budapest, in the City Park, which is also called Varoshliget, on the so-called Szechenyi Island, there is a fabulously beautiful Vajdahunyad castle, built in an eclectic style. This building bizarrely mixed Romanesque, Gothic, Baroque and Renaissance styles. One wing was erected in a Baroque manner, the entrance grille copies similar barriers of medieval European castles, etc.

In 1896, on the occasion of the celebration of the Millennium of Hungary in its capital, an exhibition was held in the City Park, for which the complex was built pavilions, which are copies of famous buildings located on the territory of Greater Hungary. The pavilions were hastily erected from short-lived timber. Each building embodied a different era and reminded the visitors of the exhibition about the rich history of the country. The Budapestans liked the exhibition so much that in 1904-1908 these buildings were re-erected, but this time from more durable materials. The architect of the complex was Ignaz Alpar.

And although elements characteristic of different Hungarian buildings were combined in one building, the residents of the city noticed that most of all the new castle resembles the Vaidahunyad fortress in Transylvania (currently it is Romania), which belonged to the noble family Hunyadi, who gave the world the Hungarian ruler of the 15th century Matthias Corvin. Therefore, the castle in Varoshliget began to be called Vaidahunyad. One of its buildings now houses the Agricultural Museum. There are several statues in the park around the castle. One of them depicts the creator of the castle Ignaz Alpara, the other, an ancient chronicler called Anonymous. The statue has a feather in its hand, which you need to touch if you plan to pass all the exams without any problems in the future.

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