Hungary · 14th century
Kinizsi Castle, also known as the castle of Nagyvázsony (castrum Wasonkew, that is, the castle of Vázsonykő), is one of the notable strongholds of the Hungarian Middle Ages. It stands in western Transdanubia, in the village of Nagyvázsony in Veszprém county, not far from the Veszprém–Tapolca road, in the Vázsony basin. The construction of the castle, built on the bank of the Eger stream (Vázsonyi-Séd), is linked to the event when, in the mid-1390s, László Vezsenyi, the table-server master of Queen Mary of Anjou, decided to abandon the building of Zádor Castle and chose Vázsony as his new seat.
Machine-translated from “Kinizsi-vár” on the Hungarian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kinizsi Castle ranks #6,902 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #50 of the 135 mapped in Hungary. Founded c. 1395, it is older than 52% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 757 atlas entries founded in the 14th century. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Székesfehérvár, 59 km away. See how Hungary compares in the castle statistics.
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