Vajdahunyad Castle is a castle
in the City Park of Budapest, Hungary. It was built between 1896 and 1908 as
part of the Millennial Exhibition which celebrated the 1000 years of Hungary
since the Hungarian Conquest of the Carpathian Basin in 895. The castle was
designed by Ignác Alpár to feature copies of several landmark buildings from
different parts the Kingdom of Hungary, especially the Hunyad Castle in
Transylvania (now in Romania). As the castle contains parts of buildings from
various time periods, it displays different architectural styles: Romanesque,
Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque. Originally it was made from cardboard and
wood, but it became so popular that it was rebuilt from stone and brick between
1904 and 1908. Today it houses the Museum of Hungarian Agriculture, the
biggest[citation needed] agricultural museum in Europe.
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