Vajdahunyad Castle, Budapest

The Millennium Celebrations, celebrating the formation of Hungary as a nation, were held in Budapest in 1896, and took place at the Varosliget, or City Park, where 1,000 years of Hungarian history were on display.  The centre piece of these displays was Vajdahunyad Castle, which was built as a conglomeration of the many different architectural styles found in various regions throughout Hungary.   It was designed by Ignac Alpar, who took inspiration from several historic landmarks from different part of Hungary, including Hunyad Castle in Transylvania. The other displays at the celebration were contained within 23 pavilions, and numbered 14,000 exhibits.  Today the Vajdahunyad Castle houses the Museum of Hungarian Agriculture. 

The church that was also built, with Vajdahunyad Castle, for the Millennium celebrations, is more of a genuine copy. In fact, it is a copy of a 13th Century Benedictine Abbey Church, in the village of Jak, in western Hungary.  The replica church at Vajdahunyad Castle was built to showcase Romanesque architecture from the 11th-13th Centuries.