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Around Town – The Castle District and North Buda<br />
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Left Budapest History Museum Centre Lords’ Street Right Batthyány Square<br />
The Castle District and North Buda<br />
AUNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE, the medieval town of Buda grew up<br />
around a castle built by King Béla IV in the 13th century. The castle was<br />
erected on a hill that rises 170 m (558 ft) above the Danube, to protect it from<br />
invading hordes. However, it wasn’t enough to repel the Turks, who ravaged<br />
and then neglected Buda in the 16th century. It was the Habsburgs who finally<br />
restored and embellished the town in the 1800s, in the glorious, Imperial style<br />
we see today. North of the castle is Víziváros (Water Town), an area first inhabited<br />
by people too poor to live on Castle Hill. Forever fighting back flood waters –<br />
the phenomenon which gives Víziváros its name –<br />
modern-day Buda, which extends as far north as the<br />
old Roman garrisons at Óbuda and Aquincum, grew<br />
out of these unlikely beginnings. Today, Víziváros is<br />
one of the most exclusive residential districts in<br />
Budapest, and home to its finest restaurants.<br />
Mátyás Church tower<br />
Sights<br />
1 Royal Palace<br />
2 Hungarian National<br />
Gallery<br />
3 Budapest History<br />
Museum<br />
4 Sándor Palace<br />
5 Mátyás Church<br />
6 Lords’ Street<br />
7 Vienna Gate Square<br />
8 Church of St Mary<br />
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