Best Traditional Hungarian Eger Castle 1241 1552 Siege Bull's Blood Egri Bikavér Minaret 1596 Northernmost Ottoman Valley of Beautiful Women Tokaj UNESCO 2002 Wine Region 5,500 ha Aszú 1571 Furmint Lake Balaton 600 km² Largest Central Europe Tihany Peninsula Pécs UNESCO 2000 Early Christian Necropolis 4th Century 16 Burial Chambers Mosque Pasha Qasim 1543 Largest Ottoman Hungary Zsolnay 1853 Hortobágy UNESCO 1999 Puszta 80,000 ha Magyar Grey Cattle 9-Arch Bridge 1833 167 m Hollókő UNESCO 1987 First Cultural Landscape Aggtelek UNESCO 1995 Pannonhalma UNESCO 1996 996 AD and Hungary Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Hungary travel | Europe destinations Best Traditional Hungarian Eger, Tokaj, Lake Balaton, Pécs and Hungary Deep Heritage Tour Destinations TL;DR Hungary holds 8 UNESCO World Heritage Sites - Budapest covered earlier, the deep-regional set runs through Eger's Ottoman frontier castle, Tokaj's wine villages classified before any French region, Lake Balaton's 600 km² inland sea, Pécs's 4th-century Christian burial chambers, and the Puszta steppe of Hortobágy. Five anchor blocks below. Plan 6-9 days for a meaningful loop, longer if you want Pannonhalma's abbey and Aggtelek's caves added. Background Hungary entered Europe in 895 AD when seven Magyar tribes under Árpád settled the Carpathian Basin, and became a Christian kingdom in 1000 AD when King Stephen I was crowned on Christmas Day with a crown sent by Pope Sylvester II. The Ottoman period from 1541 to 1699 left visible marks on Eger and Pécs - minarets, baths, mosque walls reused as c...