Citadel
Hilltop fortress with cannons once aimed at the city, now crowned by a giant liberty statue.
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This guide to the Citadel in Budapest walks the ramparts that Austrian general Julius Jacob von Haynau raised atop Gellért Hill after Hungary's 1848 uprising, cannon barrels aimed down at the very city whose laborers built the walls under guard. It follows the decades Hungarians spent demanding the fortress torn down, the concession that finally opened its gates in 1897, and the bronze Liberty Statue that later rose above the same ramparts. Stand at the wall's edge for the view down over the city it once threatened.
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