Estergon Castle (Ankara)

Estergon Castle, or officially the Estergon Turkish Cultural Centre, is a cultural centre located in the Keçiören district of Ankara, the capital of Turkey. The centre was inaugurated on 29 May 2005 and was built as a replica of Esztergom Castle in Hungary.

The construction of the castle took six years and cost 4 billion Turkish lira. The opening ceremony was attended by the then prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, several ministers and other figures from the city of Esztergom. The five-storey building, which houses restaurants and a bazaar, was built as a place where Turkish history and culture are kept alive with the Ethnographic Museum and the Asian Gardens. In the construction of the building the octagonal body of the Red Tower of Alanya Castle was taken as a model.

Machine-translated from “Castillo de Esztergom (Ankara)” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Estergon Castle (Ankara) ranks #6,210 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #92 of the 129 mapped in Turkey. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Turkey compares in the castle statistics.

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