To the east of the Habsburg Steps entrance to the palace is a bronze statue from 1905 of the Turul, a hawklike totemic bird that supposedly impregnated Emese, grandmother of 脕rp谩d, the chief military commander who led the Magyar tribes into the Carpathian Basin in about AD 895. Blame it on the bird.
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Castle Hill is a kilometre-long limestone plateau towering 170m above the Danube. It contains some of Budapest鈥檚 most important medieval monuments and鈥
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Housed in a grand Renaissance-style building and once again opened after three years' renovations in late 2018, the Museum of Fine Arts is home to the鈥
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The largest church in Hungary sits on Castle Hill, and its 72m-high central dome can be seen for many kilometres around. The building of the present鈥
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The Castle Museum, part of the multibranched Budapest History Museum, explores the city's 2000-year history over four floors. Restored palace rooms dating鈥
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The 13th-century citadel looms over Visegr谩d atop a 333m-high hill and is surrounded by moats hewn from solid rock. The real highlight is simply walking鈥
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Budapest's stunning Great Synagogue is the world's largest Jewish house of worship outside New York City. Built in 1859, the synagogue has both Romantic鈥
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Home to more than 40 statues, busts and plaques of Lenin, Marx, B茅la Kun and others whose likenesses have ended up on trash heaps elsewhere, Memento Park,鈥
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Budapest鈥檚 neoclassical cathedral is the most sacred Catholic church in all of Hungary and contains its most revered relic: the mummified right hand of鈥
Nearby Castle District attractions
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This imposing neoclassical palace dates back to 1806 and now serves as the official residence of Hungary's president (J谩nos 脕der who was re-elected to a鈥
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The Hungarian National Gallery is an overwhelming collection spread across four floors and four wings of the palace that traces Hungarian art from the鈥
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What looks like an elongated concrete doughnut hidden in the bushes off Clark 脕d谩m t茅r is the 0km stone. All Hungarian roads to and from the capital are鈥
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Facing the Royal Palace鈥檚 large courtyard to the northwest is the Romantic-style Matthias Fountain, portraying the young king Matthias Corvinus in hunting鈥
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To the southeast of the Habsburg Steps entrance, just in front of the Royal Palace, stands a statue of Eugene of Savoy, the Habsburg prince who wiped out鈥
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Clark 脕d谩m t茅r, the square named after the 19th-century Scottish engineer Adam Clark (1811鈥66) who supervised the building of the Sz茅cheny Chain Bridge 鈥
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The former Royal Palace has been razed and rebuilt at least half a dozen times over the past seven centuries. B茅la IV established a royal residence here鈥
8. Museum of Applied Hungarian Folk Art
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This small museum focuses on folk art from around Hungary. There are impressive collections of fine textiles and embroidery, wood and bone carvings,鈥