Vajdahunyad Castle

Vajdahunyad vára

Romanesque to Baroque, one lakeside compound

Hours

Courtyard and grounds open at all times

Tickets

Courtyard and park walk are free

Address

On the City Park lake, 3 minutes' walk from Heroes' Square

A castle out of a picture book sits on the lake, but it is a collage rather than one building: copies of buildings from all over the old Kingdom of Hungary. It went up in 1896 as a temporary exhibition set for the millennium and the city liked it so much it was rebuilt in stone and brick. A Romanesque church, a Gothic tower, Renaissance windows and a Baroque palace run into each other, and the Baroque wing houses the Museum of Agriculture. In winter the lake becomes an ice rink; in summer, paddle boats.