Vajdahunyad Castle
Fantasy castle assembled from replicas of twenty-one Hungarian buildings, rebuilt in stone after its cardboard original proved too popular to remove.
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This guide to Vajdahunyad Castle in Budapest starts in 1896, when architect Ignác Alpár stitched together replicas of twenty-one real Hungarian buildings into one fantasy castle for the Millennial Exhibition, a structure meant to last only a season. It follows the crowds who refused to let it go once the exhibition closed. Look for the cloaked, hooded figure seated quietly in the courtyard: Anonymus, the medieval monk who wrote Hungary's first history and never signed his real name.
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