Step Into History
Walk Budapest in 1470
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Step Into History · City walk
Matthias Corvinus's Buda, 1470
Buda in 1470 is the royal seat newly embellished under King Matthias Corvinus, its castle quarter crowned by a renovated palace and a great ducal library. The walk shows the castle on the hill, the Church of Our Lady's tall tower, German and Hungarian merchant streets, vineyards sloping to the Danube and the low town of Pest across the river.
34 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 12 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Budapest as it stood in 1470 (“Buda”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Danube Approach from Pest
- 2. Buda Ferry Landing
- 3. Buda Quays and Vineyards
- 4. Watertown (Víziváros)
- ↳ Fishmongers' Hall · interior
- 5. Vienna Gate (Bécsi Kapu)
- 6. Castle Hill Ramparts
- 7. Main Castle Street
- 8. Royal Palace of Buda
- ↳ Marble Audience Chamber · interior
- 9. Corvinus Palace Façade
- ↳ Corvina Library Hall · interior
- 10. Palace Terrace and Gardens
- ↳ Renaissance Loggia · interior
- 11. Church of Our Lady
- ↳ Church Choir · interior
- ↳ Saint Emeric Chapel · interior
- 12. Church Tower View
- 13. German Merchants' Street
- ↳ Vaulted Merchant Cellar · interior
- 14. Hungarian Merchants' Street
- 15. Buda Market Square
- ↳ Great Butchers' Hall · interior
- 16. Carmelite Monastery
- ↳ Monastic Refectory · interior
- 17. Jewish Quarter Street
- ↳ Scribe's Study · interior
- 18. Artisan Quarter
- ↳ Coopers' Workshop · interior
- 19. Buda Vineyard Slopes
- 20. River Quay Merchants
- ↳ Riverside Counting House · interior
- 21. Upper Rampart Overlooking Pest
- 22. Gellért Hill Vista