Hungary · 13th century
Esztergom Castle (Hungarian Esztergomi vár) is a hill castle situated 60 kilometres north-west of Budapest on the Danube, of great importance in Hungarian and Ottoman history.
Machine-translated from “Burg Esztergom” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Esztergom Castle ranks #2,180 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #12 of the 135 mapped in Hungary. Founded c. 1225, it is older than 73% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 1090 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 5,088 times in the last 60 days, more than 87% of the atlas. 5 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Budapest, 40 km away. It is stop 1 of 18 on the Danube Bend route, Esztergom to Budapest. See how Hungary compares in the castle statistics.
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