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BUDAPEST'S GELLERT HILL CITADEL TO BE REVAMPED

 

Budapest’s Citadel, built as a military fortress on Gellért Hill, the highest point of the city centre, will undergo a three-year reconstruction, the project’s commissioner said. The plans for the one-time fortress built by Habsburg Austria following the 1848-49 revolution include creating a park in the place of a WW2 bunker and a museum commemorating “Hungarian fights for freedom”, Gergely Fodor said. In a state of disrepair for decades, the Citadel will open to the public in 2022, Fodor said. The exhibition space will open in the reconstructed cannon tower in 2023, he said.