Hungarian National Gallery

On an on-again, off-again rainy day, we decided to do what it is the second sensible thing to do on rainy day. (First is, of course, stay home.) We headed to a museum. The Hungarian National Gallery is located inside the Buda Castle just across the river on top of a hill.

We took the bus and a couple trams get to the bottom of the hill and then bought tickets to ride the funicular to get to the top. We are not into climbing hills.

Buda Castle

A settlement has been the hill that is home for the old town and the Buda Castle for nearly a thousand years. In the 13th century, the castle and Matthias Church formed the core of a growing town. BY the 16th century, the Turks had taken over and it fell into neglect followed by Christian troops that destroyed everything. What you see above is pretty much what was left.