Hungary

Vajdahunyad Castle

A castle made to remember a millennium Crossing from Budapest’s City Park toward Széchenyi Island, a visitor sees towers, a chapel and palatial wings that appear to belong to different centuries. They do. Yet Vajdahunyad Castle is not a medieval fortress slowly enlarged over time. It was conceived by architect Ignác Alpár for the Hungarian Millennium Exhibition of 1896, when the country used architecture to narrate a thousand years since the Magyar arrival in the…...