Over on the Buda side of the Danube River, Várkerület (also known as Budavár, top) is Budapest’s oldest district yet one of its best preserved, lined with fine Baroque-style houses and other historical buildings with plenty of stone doors. This is where you’ll find the Castle Hill with the Gothic-style Buda Castle, dating back to the mid-13th century and also home to the Budapest History Museum; the Hungarian National Gallery; and the imposing Fisherman’s Bastion, a neo-Romanesque icon built in the mid-19th century and crowned by seven towers.
Read more in our post 5 of Budapest´s Most Beautiful and Interesting Nieghbourhoods.
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