The Best Travel Guide to Visegrád

The Best Travel Guide to Visegrád

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Visegrád

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Visegrád

The guide was updated: 2018-10-24

Visegrád is situated 43 kms north of Budapest on the right bank of the Danube, Visegrád is settlement located at the most picturesque point of the Danube Bend,in the centre of the Danube-Ipoly National Park amidst a unique natural environment.The small town,at the crossroads of the Danubian peoples and cultures,displays a rich diversity of historical monuments.

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Population:	1800
Currency:	Forint (HUF)
Emergency numbers:	Ambulance: 104 Police: 107 Firefighters: 105
Website:	www.visitvisegrad.hu
Opening hours:	Monday-Sunday: 10 am-4 pm
Tourist information:	Visegrad and its Area Tourism and Marketing Assosiation 2025 Visegrád, Duna-parti Street 1. Tel:+3626397188 E-mail: info@visitvisegrad.hu

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The town with a landscape of streams dividing forests and hills,where traces of empires and nations: Romans,Quadi,Avars,Magyars,Turks and Germans are discovered even today. The town whose proud ruins are aglare with the spirits of Béla IV,Charles Robert,Louis the Great, Sigismund of Luxemburg, and Matthias Corvinus. The town where the trees of the forest and the waves of ancient Danube commemorate Klára Zách,Helene Kottanner,Artúr Görgey,and other heroes of history. The town that inspired the poetry of Károly Kisfaludy,Sándor Petőfi,János Arany and Lajos Áprily.The town:Visegrád.

Castle

Built in the 1250s, the Castle was outstanding among the Hungarian castles of the age in size, power and luxury. First serving as a provisory royal residence, in 1335 it hosted the royal meeting of the three kings and also homed the Hungarian coronation jewels. Although the fortress had been rebuilt and fortified between the 13th and 15th centuries, due to the damages caused by the Ottoman Invasion it turned into ruins, and by the 18th century had lost its military importance.

The Royal Palace-Hungarian National King Matthias Museum

Already Charles Robert had a royal town house and other buildings built in the town of Visegrád around 1320.These buildings were later developed into a splendid palace in the second half of the 14th century under his son, Louis the Great and then Sigismund of Luxemburg.The excavated ruins of the Royal Palace tell us about its Gothic and Renaissance past.The terraced building complex consisted of three main parts:the northern Matthias Palace, the Royal Chapel and the Palace of Beatrix.The royal palace remained the official seat of the Hungarian kings from the 1330's until 1408 and for a while it served as a county residence even later (until the Turkish occupation in 1544).

Salamon Tower

The monumental residential tower,unique in Central Europe,in the lower castle of the fortification system built by Béla IV,gained its name by mistake referring to King Salamon's imprisonment in Visegrád nearly 200 years before the tower's contruction.The tower castle was used for centuries as a checkpoint on the road from Buda to Esztergom.

Archdeaconry Church

The church was the sear of the archdeaconry till 1226. Its importance is proved by the fact that its murals were painted by the masters of the royal workshop, the architectural elements were artistically elaborated, and the cemetery with 221 graves, excavated around it, shows that illustrious churmen and persons were buried here. In the so-called Várkert (castle garden) valley, at the foot of Sibrik Hill, archaeologists discovered the traces of a village serving the bailiff castle and the archdeaconry seat. Houses with stones ovens, dug in the ground, outhouses and relics of several crafts were found during the excavations.

Palotaház-Court of Crafts

In the Court of Crafts traditional medieval handicrafts come to life again SMITHERY: The smithery at the Court of Crafts is a traditional family workshop where father and son work together to produce most of the souvenirs you can find here. In their shop you can choose from wooden swords, jewels and authentic weapons, moreover, you can even try out medieval hammered coinage.STONE MASONRY: In the stone masonry you can find various jewels with semi-precious stones, plaster casts and souvenirs carved from stone.POTTERY:In the pottery of the Court of Crafts you can chiise from a wide range of quality products made by the ceramist couple working here.PAPERMAKER'S: In the papermaker's workshop where you can feel the atmosphere of the Middle Ages you will lose your sense of time in a few moments. look around and choose from the various quality products and souvenirs.MARKET PLACE: On the first floor of Palotaház the market place offers you various souvenirs related to the medieval history and culture of Visegrád.

Zsitvay Belvedere

The Zsitvay Belvedere is located on the top of Nagyvillám.It was built in 1933.

Sibrik Hill

Visegrád area protecting the province of Pannonia the limes numerous remains pops can be used. The most important remains of the Roman camp, which can be seen in the 176-meter high on the Sibrik Hill. The fortress was built under Constantine I in 320 years. Its layout was deltoid, and towers defended.

Illegal "Moonshine" Distillation Museum

You can learn interesting facts about the period of prohibited palinka distillation and you can keep track of the story of spirit distillation on the exhibition. In addition to our real fruit palinkas we also introduce the history of Hungarian palinka distillation on our palinka tours, and our interactive picture of illegal distillation shows the dangers that it had in the old days.

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