Vajdahunyad Castle
is a castle in the City Park of Budapest,
Hungary. It was built between 1896 and 1908 as part of the Millennial
Exhibition which celebrated the 1000 years of Hungary since the Hungarian
Conquest of the Carpathian Basin in 895. The castle was designed by Ignac Alpar
to feature copies of several landmark buildings from different parts the Kingdom
of Hungary, especially the Hunyad Castle in Transylvania (now in Romania). As
the castle contains parts of buildings from various time periods, it displays
different architectural styles: Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque.
Originally it was made from cardboard and wood, but it became so popular that
it was rebuilt from stone and brick between 1904 and 1908. Today it houses the
Museum of Hungarian Agriculture, the biggest agricultural museum in
Europe. Source
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