Buda Castle – Exposing The World

Exposing The World

Hungary: Buda castle

The Seat of Hungarian Kings

Though a castle has existed at this site since 1265, the current Castle had to be extensively rebuilt after heavy damage during the Siege of Budapest in WW II.

Reconstructed by the Habsburg dynasty

The original Castle, after being sacked on more than one occasion by the Ottoman Turks, was eventually destroyed during the war to drive out the Ottomans. In 1715 the rising Habnsburgs began a Baroque reconstrcction.

Uri Utca, Gentlemen’s Street

The Castle Hill neighborhood on the Buda side of the Danube

Uri Utca, Gentlemen's Street

The Matthias Church is the religious centerpuece of Castle Hill

Looking across Buda and the Danube to Parliament on the Pest side

Fisherman's Bastion,, a medieval castle and part of the city wall dedicated to the fishermen who lived under its protection.

Lunch is served at one of the restaurants surrounding the castle

This long flight of steps lead off the Fisherman's Bastion side of the Castle to a series of walkways and steps leading to the Danube at Chain Bridge

Under the Castle there is a series of limestone caves, some of which were used during WWII as a military hospital and in Soviet times as a nuclear bunker.

This ruined chutch has a foundation that tells us its former size

Inside the Castle

Today’s Castle reflects the Habsburg design, as reconstructed once again after the damage done by long Russian siege of World War II.