UNESCO sites in Hungary

The first of these sites can be found in the nation’s capital. Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue is one of the world's outstanding urban landscapes and illustrates the rich history of the Hungarian capital.

This site was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as a living example of a perfectly preserved settlement from the last century, where long-gone traditional forms of rural life are maintained to this day.

The story of this small village in Northern Hungary began in the 13^th century, when a castle was built here, though the settlement developed mainly in the 17^th and 18^th centuries. Along with the castle, the property includes residential buildings, farm buildings and a church.  

This transboundary site is shared with Slovakia. Hungary’s only natural site, it is outstanding for the large number of complex, diverse and reasonably intact caves that are concentrated into a relatively small area.

The property’s 712 caves are located in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, and the area provides an excellent demonstration of karst formation during both tropical and glacial climates, making it possible to study geological history over tens of millions of years.

The area is characterised by a complex mosaic of plains and wetlands. The landscape is believed to have formed towards the end of the Pleistocene, almost 12,000 years ago, and has seen traditional forms of land use, such as the grazing of domestic animals, for over two millennia

This property is comprised of the underground ruins of a remarkable series of decorated tombs which were constructed in the cemetery of the Roman town of Sopianae, in the 4^th century AD. The ruins were discovered around 200 years ago in the current day city of Pécs.

Located across north-western Hungary and eastern Austria, this property includes the 315 km² Fertö Lake, the westernmost steppe lake in Eurasia. It covers an area of around 700 km² and is home to a rich diversity of flora and fauna.

This area of outstanding natural values and landscape diversity has been shaped harmoniously over eight millennia by different ethnically diverse populations and their agricultural way of life which is evidenced by the layout and architecture of the area’s towns and villages.

This north-east Hungarian cultural landscape clearly demonstrates the long tradition of wine production in this region of low hills and river valleys which, under royal decree in 1737, became one of the first delimited wine regions in the world.

The intricate pattern of vineyards, farms, villages and small towns, with their historic networks of wine cellars, illustrates every facet of the production of the famous Tokaj wines, the quality and management of which have been strictly regulated for nearly three centuries.