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Gellért Hill

Spectacular World Heritage Site, Budapest Citadel’s Renovation Commences

The renovation process began with assessing the area’s condition and conducting archaeological excavations. Currently, the reconstruction of the Citadel’s exterior and interior walls is underway in several stages, while the restoration of the inner courtyard is also in progress. As…
Gellért Hill (left) in a lithograph from 1825.

When Maidens Died of Easter Monday Sprinkling

In Reform Era Hungary, on Easter Monday in the countryside maidens would be grabbed by boys, dragged to the nearest river and ‘dipped’ in it. If there was no river nearby, they would be taken to wells, laid in troughs…
The monument to St Gerard in Budapest on Gellért Hill.

Honouring a Bishop and Martyr: The Feast of St Gerard of Csanád

24 September is the Feast of St Gerard in the Hungarian Catholic Church. St Gerard’s cult is still very much alive in Hungary: in the Hungarian Defence Forces, he is the patron saint of technical troops, and because of his…

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