Vajdahunyad Castle (Vajdahunyadvar) Budapest

City Park, Pest Budapest , Hungary

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    Pest

    135 photos

    ... done in a playful semi-eastern, semi-classical style with animals replacing the usual figureheads. Another creative construction was Vajdahunyad Castle (Vajdahunyad vára). Constructed for a 1896 expo, it was as if the designers had tried to build the ...

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    Ffáradt Lábak

    36 photos

    ... take some time to get some appropriate shots up on this post (285 pictures taken of Budapest and counting!) and tomorrow we are off to the city park to see the Millennium Monument, the Szechenyi baths, and the Vajdahunyad Castle.   ...

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    Twistin' By the Pool

    ... ankles took advantage, but it wasn't so bad on the back either.  After my experience in lounging, I headed to see the Vajdahunyad Castle.  It has been used as a set in several Hollywood movies, but I was mainly interested in a sculpture called ...

  • 4

    Budapest: Hungry for Hungary

    45 photos

    ... St. Stephen's Basilica, Andrassy ut (an avenue that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site), the State Opera, Vajdahunyad Castle (a castle built in Romanic, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque styles) and the Great Synagogue (the largest synagogue in ...

  • 5

    Budapest - Spring 2008

    109 photos

    ... Soldier in front. To the sides are the Museum of Fine Arts and the Palace of Arts, and behind City Park opens out, with Vajdahunyad Castle on its own island in the little lake, and further off the Zoo, the Circus and the Fun Fair.   Visitors who ...

  • 6

    Final stage of Winter Break: Budapest

    35 photos

    ... funnel cake which was quite delicious.  We walked across the Chain Bridge, which is the oldest in Budapest and got on the metro to go to Vajdahunyad Castle, which was... interesting.  We called it the "Ugly Castle."  It looked kind of ...

  • 7

    Where is summer?

    6 photos

    ... of them installing the exhibit and they drained the entire lake for it. After crossing the bridge, we walked around Vajdahunyad Castle and ran into the statue of Anonymous (yes, there really was a guy the word came from). After grabbing ...

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    Drinking Bull's Blood on the Railroad Tracks

    ... necessary castle requirements; there was a moat, a bridge, outlook towers, and more.  I discovered the name of the castle was Vajdahunyad Castle, and I began to imagine this long and deep history for it.   To my dismay I soon discovered that ...

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    Hungary

    20 photos

    ... and watching sun burnt old men play chess in the pools.  In the City Park there is also a very cool castle, Vajdahunyad Castle, a relatively modern castle but it was an amazing fusion of a number of different architectural styles which made it ...

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    Between the Woods and the Water

    143 photos

    ... captured by the Russians at the end of WW2 and never heard of again); Heroes Square and the huge park behind with the Vajdahunyad Castle, an exact copy of the original in Transylvania (Rumania) "chief stronghold of John Hunyadi (also known as the White ...