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The Károlyi Palace
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An important relic of the capital’s neoclassical architecture, only the outside walls of the present Palace originate from the 17th and 18th centuries. Its architectural emphases and decorations were, almost without exception, built in the reform period between 1832–1841, during the extensive reconstruction work associated with the Károlyi family name. The building is the most important of the 19th-century aristocratic palaces in Pest, and its architecture is in keeping with its cultural and historical significance and the historic moments that it witnessed. » |
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The Károlyi Palace
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From written records we know the history of the land-plot and the building on it from the end of the 17th century onwards. According to the ‘Zaiger’ (the first inquiry into the proprietary rights of the land-plots in the town of Pest after it had been liberated from Turkish rule) there were four plots of land on the present site. These were united, and in 1694 Nikolaus Wilfersheim Imperial and Royal commissioner started construction. By 1696, a spacious and elegant house with more than one storey and 18 rooms stood there. » |
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