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In the Ear, 1865 - George Cochran Lambdin

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=> KÁROLYI PALACE, FÜZÉRRADVÁNY: 

=> You can reach Károlyi Palace, the pride of Füzérradvány, by passing through a fairytale-like row of pine trees. From about 1846 to 1877, Ede Károlyi, the heir of Radvány estate, reconstructed the building formerly standing here in a historicising style based on his own, as well as Miklós Ybl’s plans. The count himself drew up the concept of the palace’s special octagonal tower.

=> From 1938, the palace housed a “palace hotel” counting, in part, on the sport of hunting, which was a particularly novel idea in Hungary in the 1930s, although there were a good number of European forerunners, especially in English country mansions.

=> Although Károlyi Palace, surrounded by the woods of Füzérradvány, retains the atmosphere of the historicist era from the outside, in its halls evoking the splendour of the past, visitors are greeted by unadulterated Italian Renaissance interior design details.

 => It is also worth mentioning the extensive palace park with a special atmosphere surrounding the palace. The renewed historical garden will amaze visitors with its promenades, bridges across streams, fishponds, plane trees, wide-spreading linden trees, multi-trunked tulip trees and pyramidal English oaks. You can even walk for several hours in the park without having to touch a section of the same road twice.

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=> The Fuzer Castle, Hungary: The Füzér castle was first mentioned in 1264, when it belonged to a local clan leader, Andronicus the Blind. It had been built before the Mongol invasion on a step hill reaching more than 550 metres high. After the end of the war, the castle was soon taken over by the king who used it as one of his more important eastern strongholds. Thus, in 1529, the royal insignia were kept there and not at the usual castle, Visegrád.

=> Around the same time, the castle was heavily and fitted with a tower at the entrance gate, inspired by Italian architecture. In the end of the 17th century it was burned down in order to prevent the castle to be used by rebels and bands of robbers, who had harassed locals in the vicinity. After its destruction, the walls crumbled and the site was pillaged for its building material.