Just Kings

Budai castle
The Visegrad Palace

Budai castle

To the palace he made wide, red marble Renaissance had stair, and he flanked with ornate bronze candelaliers. The made of red marble gateframeworks held,huge bronze door-leaves , as which his reliefs depicted Herkules’ acts, were kept.

Above the gate presumably was Mátyás’„ámer’s shield” visible. The cobblestones of the gate tower was held huge iron wrought door-leaves .It was attached to the gate, but the kitchen, the guards' seat, and the prison were placed on the yard's inner part .From the upstairs windows of the gate tower, was open chance for all four compass points.

The forecourt was worked up on the south side of the castle hill, from here possible to get up to the gate tower, which drove into the inner parts of the castle. The bronze statue of Herkules stood on the middle of the forecourt of Mátyás, where his older brother, László was executed. The wide ditch and a strong wall separated the forecourt from the inner castle.A bridge drove to the gate tower through the ditch. Mátyás made new buildings raise on Buda, yet though round the second yard. This was the Renaissance Mátyás-vane.The storey palace wing put the Renaissance yard on an alley, in the upstairs part of which the remarkable library rooms were.Ornate halls, red marble gates, windows, inside stairs, marble-and bronze sculptures, reornamented Mátyás king's palace.

Above the main gate, this inscription was legible with the letters gilded,, Mátyás made new buildings raise on Buda, yet though round the second yard. This was the Renaissance Mátyás-vane.The storey palace wing put the Renaissance yard on an alley, in the upstairs part of which the remarkable library rooms were.Ornate halls, red marble gates, windows, inside stairs, marble-and bronze sculptures, reornamented Mátyás king's palace.Hollós Mátyás, the invicible king.” His three Hunyad sculptures stood in the closet above the main gate. Right Hunyadi János, in the middle Mátyás, on the left Hunyadi László. Ravens, the sculptures of lion, tiger, leopards received place yet beside Mátyás’ and Beatrix's coats of arm in the halls. Fireplaces built out of tiles on a winter, an ornament heated the halls. Red marble slabs covered the yard, for which one a beautiful marble well rose on his middle, atop Pallasz Athén’s sculpture. The chapel joined the yard, in the church ceremonies were going on.

The two library was in the vicinity of the chapel.The calm one maid chairs, tables, blankets lined up in the hall, shelves carved artistically guaranteed the comfortly reading. The 17 metres long, 13 metres of wide reading room was the Renaissance king's favourite place.

The Visegrad Palace

Mátyás liked the beautiful things,he desired into the nature, he was just in there feeled refreshed .Observable, that these two things –th beauty and the nature – united it in the palaces built on the places selected carefully. From among them the Visegrád palace depended on first place where the king received his guests, particularly one with pleasure the foreigners. Mátyás’s unconcealed aim, that it dazzled delegates take good news about the Hungarian royal yard, and primarily about him to their homeland.

The wide terrace lay on large, vaulted cellars. The terrace lime trees with a stupefying fragrance edged it, with a red marble fountain. The sculptors building up the palace carved out the Muses' reliefs on the lower pool of the well giving fresh water always. In the middle, a marble column Cupido sculpture babbling the fountain. Mátyás liked staying here, in the vicinity of the fountain. Received the delegates here, they laid the table for lunch here in summertime.From the terrace the king's palace was based on east. The road drove from here, the middle of which a smaller yard surrounded with marble columns occupied, to the side wing.

At a standstill on the middle of this yard, there is a white marble what worked masterfully.An ornate chapel, and three white altars, was built upon in the central terrace from a mountain, it was a silver whistle lilac furthermore. Marble decorations, wall tiles, mosaic tiles covered the walls.

A road drove to the upper palace from the terrace of the chapel, from which a magnificent view overlooked the bend of Duna.From the palace buildings to the north onto a lying big area grape and orchard deployed.From the palace road edged with sallow leaded down into the city. The princess had separate suite, in which one – likewise, than in the rest of the palace's halls – ther were carved heaven one painted with gold, big, coloured, lead-glass paneled windows, ornate fountains and doors.

Baths, suitable areas, terraces completed the the royal palace. The stables were placed on the palace's lower part, the Duna coast, in fifty places for horses. The Visegrád palace's greatness indicates that 350 rooms were developed in it. Mátyás close to the royal palace, citadel with big past rebuilt it. The 15. century building operation affected the section of the castle looking out on Duna where the king is representative halls were worked up.

The part of building with a Renaissance style differed from the rest of the buildings of the citadel sharply. There were enormous windows, large doors, ornate halls in this part of building.Mátyás rebuilt the other part of the citadel, the noon round bastion.