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Budapest Sights

Fishermen’s Bastion

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  • Address
    • Castle Hill
  • Transport
    • 16, 16/a or 116
  • Price
    • adult/student & child 400/200Ft
  • Hours
    • 9am-11pm mid-Mar–mid-Oct, free rest of year

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Lonely Planet review for Fishermen’s Bastion

The bastion is a neo-Gothic masquerade that most visitors (and Hungarians) believe to be much older. But who cares? It looks medieval and offers among the best views in Budapest. Built as a viewing platform in 1905 by Frigyes Schulek, the bastion’s name was taken from the medieval guild of fishermen responsible for defending this stretch of the wall. The seven gleaming white turrets represent the Magyar tribes that entered the Carpathian Basin in the late 9th century. In front of the bastion is an ornate equestrian monument to St Stephen by sculptor Alajos Stróbl.

 

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