Top 2 Attractions in Budapest

Popular Budapest sights and tourist spots

• 1 Buda Castle

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  The Buda castle was built in the late Gothic style during the 14th century at the southern end of the hill where it currently stands.  In the middle of the 13th century, after the Tatar invasion of 1241, King Bela IV of Hungary began rebuilding all the fortresses, reinforcing them with stone walls, and ordering the erection of about a hundred new castles. Thus, in 1244, he ordered the construction of a fortress in Óbuda, which soon began to be populated in a position close to the current one ...

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• 2 Parliament of Budapest

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  The Hungarian Parliament (Országház) is a large building, inaugurated at the beginning of the 20th century, located on the eastern bank of the Danube in Budapest. Since 1902, it has been the seat of the National Assembly of Hungary and, as such, hosts the parliamentary services as well as the Library of the National Assembly of Hungary. This building, whose volumes are organized around the central dome, has a neo-Gothic facade but a ground plan that follows Baroque conventions ...

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