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Buda Castle District

Posted by (Magyarország / Rep of Texas ) on

I dont go to Buda that often. The castle district is beautiful and a tourist haven. But my son and his family came to town, so we did the required homage to Buda. I knew what we would find, but it was worse than I had expected.

The Fisherman’s Bastion area, wonderful. Best views in Budapest. You should walk down the back stairs to the river if you can.

The Castle proper, beautiful, majestic, worth the time.

Mathias Church, one of the most uniquely amazing churches I have ever been in. Recently restored it is stunning.

Some other ideas: https://zsidai.com/buda-castle-budapest.html

BUT!! Everything in between a maze of construction and tourist crowds. Horrible. You see the current government is rebuilding the Castle District to its pre-WWII glory. That means reconstructing massive palaces and riding stables and ….

So, if you are into museums they do exist in the District. They are fascinating and you could spend days in them. If you are a wandering strolling sort of tourist, do go for the points I mentioned above, but figure its 3 hours tops.

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That was my reaction when I was there last May as I always like to spend a few hours in the Castle District--in fact, my phone screen is a shot of a beautiful wrought iron gate that has a huge raven holding a ring in its beak (the legend is that the raven stole it from King Matthias and thus it became his heraldic emblem) on the cobbled path between the Bastion and Castle areas, and I wanted to take another picture of it but there was too much construction stuff in the way, generally not the same peaceful experience walking in that area as usual.

I never tire of the views from the Bastion, and there's usually an interesting special exhibition going on in the National Gallery, plus the excellent Hospital in the Rock that's on the lower part of the back side of the hill. One year I was lucky to be there over Whitsunday--that's 5/19 this year--and there was a wonderful festival going on all over the Castle district and lower part of the Varkert Bazar with folk dancing, fabulous & cheap food, arts & crafts, & exhibits and it was full of locals out celebrating and I was just delighted by all of it. I also like a small shop called Tarnok Galeria at 10 Tarnok utca that features Hungarian folk art pottery and some vintage pieces.

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