21 September 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General
Reading Time: 11 minutesDanube and Visegrad Castle © Civertan Grafikai Studio/cc-by-3.0
Visegrád is a small
castle town in
Pest County,
Hungary. It is north of
Budapest on the right bank of the
Danube in the
Danube Bend. It had a population of 1,864 in 2010. Visegrád is famous for the remains of the Early Renaissance summer
palace of King
Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and the medieval
citadel. In 1991, the leading politicians of
Hungary,
Czechoslovakia, and
Poland met here to form a periodical forum, the
Visegrád Group, with an intentional allusion to the meeting centuries earlier in 1335. Visegrád was granted
town privileges again in 2000.
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