World Heritage Sites in Hungary

When a place is entered onto the list of World Heritage Sites, its universal value is being fundamentally acknowledged: it is viewed as being the best or the most characteristic example of one of the World's cultural or natural assets. Each country selects which of its own locations it will promote for the List.

Budapest Danube Bank View, Buda Castle District and Andrássy Avenue
This encompasses the area on the Buda side which stretches from the Buda abutment of Petőfi Bridge across Gellért Hill and Tabán up to Castle Hill (Várhegy) and the Water town (Víziváros), and on the Pest side, the stretch from the Pest abutment of Margaret Bridge to Petőfi Bridge (1987). The Andrássy Avenue was added to the List as it presents a uniform architectural image of Budapest, connecting Elizabeth Square, in the capital's innermost area, with Heroes' Square (2002).

The old village of Hollókő and its surroundings 
The old part of Hollókő village, a settlement nestling in the Cserhát Hills, has maintained its distinctive traditions to this day. Fifty-five houses in the old village are listed as heritage sites. The village is special since it is not simply an open-air museum that exhibits folk traditions, but even today, it is actually a living village where traditions are a part of everyday life (1987).

Caves of Aggtelek karst and Slovak karst
This area which stretches across the border is extremely rich in caves. Moreover, relative to the area's size, the subterranean formations show an almost matchless range; together these caves constitute a World Heritage Site. Thus the Heritage Site is not only the best known of the caves, the Baradla Stalactite Cave of Aggtelek, nor is it the same as the Aggtelek National Park, although they are obviously intimately connected with one another (1995).

The Millenary Benedictine Arch-abbey of Pannonhalma and its natural environment
The thousand-year-old Benedictine Arch-abbey and its church are part of the World Heritage Site together with the Millennium Memorial, the Calvary and the Blessed Virgin Chapel (1996).

Hortobágy National Park - The Puszta
Hortobágy is one of Europe's largest protected grasslands. The Hortobágy National Park is a Heritage Site which includes the Hortobágy and a significant area of the Nagykunság, together with some man-made constructions that define the area: the Nine-Arch Bridge of Hortobágy (Kilenclyukú híd), the Hortobágy Wayside Inn (csárda) and the building of the museum (Pásztormúzeum) which illustrates the life of nomadic herdsmen (1999).

Early Christian Necropolis in Pécs
In the centre of the town of Pécs (Sopianae in Roman times), beneath Cathedral Square (Dóm tér) and St Stephan's Square (Szent István tér) there is a 4th-6th century early Christian cemetery. Research and excavations thus far have uncovered various burial constructions and over a hundred burial sites around a tomb chapel with three apses (Cella Trichora), a cemetery building with seven apses (Cella Septichora), and a mausoleum. The first painted crypts were discovered in 1780. They are ornamented with Biblical scenes, images of the apostles Peter and Paul, and floral and animal motifs. Parts of the heritage complex are open to the public (2000).

Cultural landscape of Lake Fertő/Neusiedlersee
The special habitats and the rural architecture surrounding Lake Fertő on both the Hungarian and the Austrian sides form the Heritage Site. The territory which remains of the originally enormous area of marsh and wetland has preserved a unique flora and fauna, as well as an invaluable array of landscape, ethnographic and cultural historic assets (2001).

Tokaj wine region historic cultural landscape
The deservedly world-famous home of Aszú wine, Tokaj and the surrounding area, were added to the World Heritage List as a distinct cultural landscape (2002).