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Explore Wonderful Visegrad Hungary – Visegrad Hungary Travel Guide
Visegrad (Visegrád) has always been at the center of attention during history due to its favorable amenities and essential strategic role. The earliest traces of a human presence led to the New Stone Age. From the Bronze Age, the town and its surroundings have been inhabited. During the historical times Celtics, Germans, Romans, Avars, and…
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Discover Vac Hungary – Your Ultimate Travel Guide for Central and Eastern Europe
The exhibit in Vac Hungary is the result of a mummy bonanza discovered during a routine restoration of the town’s Dominican church. In 1994 workers discovered a secret crypt, bricked up for over 200 years. Inside, there were 265 hand-painted coffins, one on top of the other, in order of size. Inside, the occupants had naturally mummified, due…
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Beautiful Vizivaros Budapest Travel Guide – Explore These 6 Amazing Places
Between Castle Hill and the western bank of the Danube, extending north from the Chain Bridge towards Margit körút is the area known as Vizivaros or Water Town. This area gained its name in the Middle Ages due to constant flooding. It was originally an area inhabited by artisans and fishermen who, as a result,…
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Explore Budapest Beyond City Center – Your Ultimate Travel Guide
Budapest is a sprawling city and several sites in Budapest Beyond City Center are well worth a visit. North of the center of Buda is the fascinating ruins of Aquincum, a town founded by the Romans in about AD 100. To the west, the city has plenty of wooded hills. These offer walks around beautiful…
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Discover Gellert Hill and Taban Budapest -Ultimate Hungary Travel Guide
Rising beside the Danube, Gellert Hill is one of Budapest’s most attractive areas. From the top, at a height of 140 meters (460 ft), a beautiful view of the whole of Budapest unfolds. the Celtic Eravi, who preceded the Romans, formed their settlement on the hill’s northern slope. Once called Old Hill, many superstitions and…
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Explore Wonderful Budapest Castle District – 9 Amazing Tips In Hungary
The hill town of Buda grew up around its castle and Mátyás Church from the 13th century onward. At 60 meters (197 ft) above the Danube, the hill’s good strategic position and natural resources made it a prize site for its earliest inhabitants. In the 13th century, a large settlement arose when, after a Tartar…
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Budapest Parliament and Surroundings – 9 Amazing Tips
Towards the end of the 18th and throughout the 19th century Pest underwent a series of huge changes. In 1838 a flood destroyed most of the rural dwellings that had occupied the area until that time. The unification of Budapest in 1873, and the 1,000-year anniversary, in 1896, of the Magyar conquest also boosted the…
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Central Pest Area Budapest – 7 Amazing Places To Visit
At the end of the 17th century much of the Pest Area Budapest was in ruins and few residents remained. But within the next few decades new residential districts appeared, which are today’s mid-town suburbs. In the 19th century, redevelopment schemes introduced grand houses and apartment blocks, some with shops and cafe’s, as well as…