Through Four Seasons' Eyes Budapest - IMEX America
Through Four Seasons' Eyes Budapest - IMEX America
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14<br />
Castle Hill, Víziváros & Turkish <strong>Budapest</strong><br />
Historic Buda in a day<br />
Castle Hill<br />
Buda may be the city’s more peaceful half,<br />
but this was not always the case. Castle Hill<br />
has succumbed to so many sieges, very little<br />
remains of its original architecture. Faithful<br />
reconstructions of colorful single-story houses,<br />
majestic churches and palatial buildings have<br />
transformed this quarter into the city's prime<br />
tourist destination.<br />
Mongols were among the first to invade, then<br />
came the Turks in the mid-1500s, followed by<br />
the recapturing of Castle Hill 145 years later –<br />
the latter battle leveling most of the remaining<br />
buildings. The district was rebuilt only to<br />
be destroyed during the 1848-49 Uprising<br />
against the Habsburgs and again at the end of<br />
World War II, when Germans took refuge here<br />
from Soviet troops. As reconstruction began,
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