Visegrád is a castle town in Pest County, Hungary. It is north of Budapest on the right bank of the Danube in the Danube Bend. It had a population of 1,864 in 2010. The town is the site of the remains of the Early Renaissance summer palace of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and a medieval citadel.
Image: Fellegvár (7612. számú műemlék) 6
Image: Királyi palota maradványai (7594. számú műemlék) 6
Image: Fellegvár (7612. számú műemlék) 2
Visegrád Castle
Pest is a county (vármegye) in central Hungary. It covers an area of 6,393.14 square kilometres (2,468.41 sq mi), and has a population of 1,339,090 (2023). It surrounds the national capital Budapest and the majority of the county's population live in the suburbs of Budapest. It shares borders with Slovakia and the Hungarian counties Nógrád, Heves, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, Bács-Kiskun, Fejér, and Komárom-Esztergom. The River Danube flows through the county. The capital of Pest County is Budapest, although Budapest is not part of Pest County. Starting 2018, they also constitute different NUTS:HU level 2 regions, as previously Pest County has lost catch-up aids from the European Union because of the high development of Budapest.
Image: Nagybörzsöny, Hungary panoramio Kaszás Tibor (1)
Image: A landscape in Pest county near Vac
Image: Kemence, Hungary panoramio Kaszás Tibor (4)
View of Szentendre