World Heritage in Hungary

Budapest

Hollókő

Aggtelek caves

Benedictine Pannonhalma Abbey

Hortobágyi National Park

Pécs

Cultural landscape around Lake Neusiedl

Cultural landscape of the Tokaj wine region

World Heritage Sites in Hungary

The world heritage in Hungary (as of 2017) includes eight UNESCO world heritage sites , including seven world cultural heritage sites and one world natural heritage site. Among them is the Neusiedler See , a cross-border world heritage site . Hungary acceded to the World Heritage Convention in 1985, the first two World Heritage sites were added to the World Heritage List in 1987. The last World Heritage site to date was registered in 2002.

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Hungary in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in the World Heritage List (K - cultural heritage, N - natural heritage, K / N - mixed, (R) - on the Red List of World Heritage in Danger ).

f1 Map with all coordinates of World Heritage Sites: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
Castle palace	Buda Castle District and the Danube River Bank in Budapest	1987	K	400	originally comprised the banks of the Danube and the Castle Palace in Budapest , expanded in 2002 to include Andrássy Street and the Földalatti , the oldest subway line on the European continent
(more pictures)	Traditional village of Hollókő (Rabenstein) ( location )	1987	K	401	Hollókő consists of two parts, the old town and the new town. The city burned down in 1905 but was rebuilt.
Baradla cave	Caves in the Aggtelek and Slovak Karst	1995	N	1624	the transnational world heritage site includes several caves in Hungary and Slovakia, including seven caves in the Aggtelek National Park in Hungary
	Benedictine abbey Pannonhalma ( location )	1996	K	758
	Hortobágyi National Park - the "Puszta"	1999	K	474	The Puszta of Hortobágy is the largest and best known Central European steppe area .
	Early Christian cemetery in Pécs	2000	K	853	Early Christian cemetery in the city of Pécs
	Fertő / Neusiedler See cultural landscape	2001	K	772	Neusiedler See with Fertöd and Rust , cross-border with Austria
	Cultural landscape of the Tokaj wine region	2002	K	1063

Tentative list

The sites that are intended for nomination for inclusion in the World Heritage List are entered in the tentative list .

Current World Heritage candidates

As of 2018, eleven sites are entered in the tentative list of Hungary, the last entry was in 2017. The following table lists the sites in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in the tentative list.

f1 Map with all coordinates of current World Heritage candidates: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Caves in the thermal karst system of	1993	N	282
(more pictures)	Medieval castle of Esztergom ( location )	1993	K	277
	State Stud of Mezöhegyes	2000	K	1500
	Ipolytarnóc fossils	2000	N	1502
	Fortification system at the confluence of the Danube and Waag rivers in Komárno - Komárom	2007	K	1498
	Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture	2008	K	5366	5 buildings by the Hungarian architect Ödön Lechner in Budapest and Kecskemét
	Borders of the Roman Empire - Ripa Pannonica in Hungary	2009	K	5452	On February 1, 2018, a joint application by Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary was submitted to extend the world heritage borders of the Roman Empire to include the Danube Limes .
	Network of agricultural heritage buildings in Hungary	2017	K	6264	Proposed as early as 2000.
	Royal seats in Esztergom, Visegrád with the former royal forest in the Pilis Mountains	2017	K	6267	Esztergom and Visegrád had been proposed individually since 2000.
	Wooden bell towers in the Upper Tisza region	2017	K	6268	Bell towers of the reformed wooden churches of Nyírbátor , Kölcse , Zsurk , Vámosatya , Lónya , Tiszacsécse (all proposed as early as 2000–2017) and Nagyszekeres .
	Cultural landscape of the Balaton highlands	2017	K / N	6269	The proposal includes the Tihany Peninsula (proposed since 1993), the Tapolca Basin, the Káli Basin and the Hévíz Medicinal Lake, the Festetics Castle in Keszthely with the castle park, the Georgikon Hof and the historic Balatonfüred district .

Former World Heritage candidates

These sites were previously on the tentative list, but were withdrawn or rejected by UNESCO. Sites that are included in other entries on the tentative list or that are part of world heritage sites are not taken into account here.

f1 Map with all coordinates of former World Heritage candidates: OSM

designation	year	Type	description
Széchenyi medicinal baths ( location )	1986-1986	K	The Széchenyi Spa in Budapest is the largest of its kind in Europe.
Budapest ghetto and 4 synagogues	1993-2001	K
Cultural stratification in the historic center of Pécs ( location )	1998-1998	K	Pécs is one of the oldest cities in Hungary and was already a settlement in prehistoric times. The proposal was rejected by ICOMOS in 1998 and withdrawn by Hungary
Wooden bell towers in the northern part of the Carpathian Basin ( location )	2000-2017	K	The wooden bell towers of Tákos , Uska , Szamostatárfalva , Márokpapi , Csaroda , Szalonna and Rásonysápberencs are no longer part of the 2017 nomination.