Visegrád

Visegrád sits at the tightest point of the Danube Bend, with the Upper Castle on the hill above giving one of the best river views in Hungary. In the fourteenth century this was a royal seat, and in 1335 the kings of Hungary, Bohemia and Poland met here for two months. King Matthias later built a Renaissance palace by the river, now partly reconstructed.

Good to know

• In 1335 King Charles I of Hungary hosted a two-month congress with John of Bohemia and Casimir III of Poland.
• The remains of the summer palace of King Matthias Corvinus and a medieval citadel survive.
• The Visegrád Group of central European countries was founded here in 1991.
• Not to be confused with Višegrad in Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the Drina.