Eger · Hungary

Castle of Eger

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moderate

9/10

best: morning

historic, dramatic, panoramic

A local would say...

They held this castle against 100,000 Ottoman soldiers with 2,000 men — and drank wine to do it.

The ancient castle at the heart of Eger, the baroque wine-country city famous for Egri Bikavér (Bull's Blood wine), where Hungarian defenders became legendary in 1552 by repelling an Ottoman army vastly larger than their own. The castle overlooks a perfectly preserved baroque city centre of Copf-style architecture found almost nowhere else. A short walk southwest through the town leads to the Valley of the Beautiful Women, where dozens of wine cellars are carved into volcanic tuff hillsides.