Buda Castle is a castle and palace complex of the Hungarian Kings in Budapest
Buda Castle (Hungarian: Budavári Palota, German: Burgpalast) is the historical castle and palace complex of the Hungarian Kings in Budapest. It was first completed in 1265, although the massive Baroque palace today occupying most of the site was built between 1749 and 1769. The complex in the past was referred to as either the Royal Palace (Hungarian: Királyi-palota) or the Royal Castle (Hungarian: Királyi Vár, German: Königliche Burg). The castle now houses the Hungarian National Gallery and the Budapest Historical Museum.
Buda Castle sits on the southern tip of Castle Hill, surrounded by the touristic area known as Várnegyed (Castle Quarter), which is famous for its Medieval, Baroque, and Neoclassical houses, churches, public buildings, and monuments. The hill is linked to Clark Ádám Square and the Széchenyi Chain Bridge by the Castle Hill Funicular. The castle is a part of the Budapest World Heritage Site, so declared in 1987. The original Royal Palace was ruined during World War II; it was rebuilt in a simplified Stalinist Baroque style during the Kádár era.
Credit and thanks to Google Earth Studio for this amazing aerial footage.
Buda Castle sits on the southern tip of Castle Hill, surrounded by the touristic area known as Várnegyed (Castle Quarter), which is famous for its Medieval, Baroque, and Neoclassical houses, churches, public buildings, and monuments. The hill is linked to Clark Ádám Square and the Széchenyi Chain Bridge by the Castle Hill Funicular. The castle is a part of the Budapest World Heritage Site, so declared in 1987. The original Royal Palace was ruined during World War II; it was rebuilt in a simplified Stalinist Baroque style during the Kádár era.
Credit and thanks to Google Earth Studio for this amazing aerial footage.
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00:00Buda Castle is the historical castle and palace complex of the Hungarian kings in Budapest.
00:15It was first completed in 1265.
00:18Although the massive Baroque palace today occupying most of the site was built between
00:221749 and 1769, the complex in the past was referred to as either the Royal Palace or
00:28the Royal Castle.
00:30The castle now houses the Hungarian National Gallery and the Budapest Historical Museum.
00:35Buda Castle sits on the southern tip of Castle Hill, surrounded by the touristic area known
00:40as Varnagyde, Castle Quarter, which is famous for its medieval, Baroque, and neoclassical
00:45houses, churches, public buildings, and monuments.
00:48The hill is linked to Clark Adams Square and the Széchenyi Chain Bridge by the Castle
00:52Hill funicular.
00:54The castle is a part of the Budapest World Heritage Site, so declared in 1987.
00:59The original Royal Palace was ruined during World War II, it was rebuilt in a simplified
01:04Stalinist Baroque style during the Kater era.
01:07The first royal residence on Castle Hill was built by King Béla IV of Hungary between
01:111247 and 1265.
01:14It is uncertain whether it was situated on the southern tip of the hill or the northern
01:18elevation.
01:19Near the Kammerhof, the oldest part of the present-day palace was built in the 14th century
01:24by Stephen, Duke of Slavonia, who was the younger brother of King Louis I of Hungary.
01:29Only the foundations remain of the castle keep, which was known as Stephen's Tower,
01:34Budapest.
01:35The Gothic Palace of King Louis I was arranged around a narrow courtyard next to the keep.
01:40King Sigismund significantly enlarged the palace and strengthened its fortifications.
01:44Sigismund, as a Holy Roman Emperor, needed a magnificent royal residence to express his
01:49prominence among the rulers of Europe.
01:52He chose Buda Castle as his main residence.
01:55And during his long reign it became probably the largest Gothic palace of the late Middle
01:59Ages.
02:00Buda was an important artistic center of the international Gothic style.
02:05Construction began in the 1410s and was largely finished in the 1420s, although some minor
02:09works continued until the death of the king in 1437.
02:13The palace was first mentioned in 1437.
02:16Under the name, Fritz Polotha.
02:18The most important part of Sigismund's palace was the northern wing, known as the Fresh
02:23Palace, Han, Fritz Polotha.
02:25On the top floor was a large hall called the Roman Hall, 70 × 20 meters or 230 × 66 feet,
02:32with a carved wooden ceiling.
02:34Great windows and balconies faced toward the city of Buda.
02:37The facade of the palace was decorated with statues, a and coat of arms.
02:41In front stood the bronze equestrian statue of Sigismund, later repaired by King Matthias
02:46Corvinus.
02:47The southern part of the royal residency was surrounded with narrow swingers.
02:51Two parallel walls, the so-called Cortina Walls, run down from the palace to the river
02:56Danube across the steep hillside.
02:58The most imposing structure, the Broken Tower, on the western side of the Cowar Dunor, remained
03:03unfinished.
03:04The basement of the tower was used as a dungeon.
03:07The top floors were probably the treasury of the royal jewels.
03:11The reconstructed medieval fortifications and the Great Rondella in the last years of
03:15his reign Matthias Corvinus started construction of a new Renaissance palace on the eastern
03:19side of the Sigismund Courtyard, next to the fresh palace.
03:23The Matthias Palace remained unfinished because of the king's early death.
03:27The walled gardens of the palace were laid out on the western slopes of Castle Hill.
03:32After the death of Matthias Corvinus, his successor, King Wladyslaus II, carried on
03:37the works of the Matthias Palace, especially after his marriage with Anna of Foix-Candale
03:41in 1502.
03:43After the reign of King John Zapolia, the last national ruler of Hungary, the palace
03:47was repaired.
03:49On the southern tip of Castle Hill, the Great Rondella was built by Italian military engineers.
03:54The circular bastion is one of the main surviving structures of the old palace.
03:59That is all.
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