Hungarian World Heritage Sites you have to see
Budapest
Budapest is a World Heritage Site in itself, including the banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter, and Andrássy Avenue. This Heritage Site stretches from Margaret Bridge to Szabadság Bridge and includes breathtaking sites like the Buda Castel Quarter and the beautiful buildings of the Parliament.
The Old Village of Hollókö
Located in Northern Hungary, this tiny village is one of the most captivating of the Hungarian World Heritage Sites. The village still features its original mediaeval settlement structure, complete with one street lined by porched rural houses with white-washed walls. Most of the 67 protected hoses here still house residents today, although some have become handicraft workshops, museums, and demonstration sites.
Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst Caves
Some call them the Dragon’s Head and the Mother-In-Law’s Tongue, and once you see these stalagmite formations, you’ll know why. Aggtelek Karst is home to more than 1,200 caves, of which Baradla Cave is the most spectacular. Baradla Cave is 2 million years old and stretches 26 kilometres in length. The cave itself is also used as a concert venue due to its splendid acoustic features.
The Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma
In the Panon region of Northern Hungary sits the Basilica and educational buildings and chapels of the Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma. The buildings here guard a sacred history: a library and collections that are of amazing cultural value. Founded in 996 by Benedictine monks of honour or Saint Martin, the monastery here is a must-see. The Abbey also has its own botanical and herbal garden, tea house, restaurant, vineyard, wine house and pilgrim’s house.
The Puszta (Hortobágy National Park)
The romantic world of the outlaws might be a thing of the past, but if you want to explore traces of the era, you can find them in Eastern Hungary in the Hortobágy region. It is here, in the largest continuous natural grassland in Europe, that you’ll see grazing herds of cattle, horses, herdsmen and flocks of sheep. Nearby, the Puszta Animal Park is a great spot for meeting and greeting traditional Hungarian domesticated animals.
Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape
On the Austrian-Hungarian border, you can explore Neusiedlersee Lake, which is considered a wetland of international importance. Home to various rare plant species that live only here, this Hungarian World Heritage Site, the reserve covers more than 210 square meters of land and the lake itself if Europe’s largest alkaline lake.
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