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Esztergom is the seat of the prímás (see Primate) of the Catholic Church in Hungary, and the former seat of the Constitutional Court of Hungary. The city has a Christian Museum with the largest ecclesiastical collection in Hungary. Its cathedral, Esztergom Basilica, is the largest church in Hungary.
- Esztergom Basilica. The seat of Hungary’s Catholic Church is a dumbfounding Neoclassical monument that also blends hints of Ancient Egyptian architecture in a cavernous crypt.
- Castle Museum. In the same ensemble, Esztergom Castle was built in the early 1070s by Géza I of Hungary on the remains of a Roman Castrum. What’s left now are bastions, roundels and defensive walls on the very edge of cliffs rising above the Danube.
- Víziváros (Watertown) On the right bank of the Danube under the castle walls, Víziváros is an episcopal neighbourhood set up in the 13th century by the archbishop Matthias Rátót.
- Museum of Christian Art. On the upper floor of the Primate’s Palace in Víziváros, the Museum of Christian Art was founded in the 19th century by Archbishop János Simor and abound with liturgical paintings, sculpture and decorative arts from the 1200s to the 1800s.
- Esztergom Basilica. The largest church in Hungary sits on Castle Hill, and its 72m-high central dome can be seen for many kilometres around. The building of the present…
- Christian Museum. The former Bishop’s Palace in the picturesque riverbank Watertown (Víziváros) district houses the Christian Museum, home to the largest and finest…
- Öziçeli Hacci Ibrahim Mosque. This 400-year-old mosque was built in the 17th century, during the Ottoman occupation of Esztergom. In its later incarnations it served both as a granary…
- Castle Museum. The Castle Museum is housed in the former Royal Palace, built mostly by French architects in the 12th century during Esztergom’s golden age.
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Esztergom, town, Komarom-Esztergom county, northwestern Hungary. Esztergom is a river port on the Danube River (which at that point forms the frontier with Slovakia) and lies 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Budapest. The various forms of the town’s name all refer to its importance as a grain market.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Esztergom, a town of almost thirty thousand inhabitants, is located in northern Hungary, across the Danube River from Slovakia. Budapest, the capital of Hungary, is a bit over fifty kilometers south of Esztergom. Why visit Esztergom. The main reason to visit Esztergom is to see its Basilica – the largest structure of that kind in Central Europe.
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