The Royal Garden Pavilion was designed by Miklós Ybi, an important nineteenth-century Hungarian architect, and built between 1875 and 1882 on the embankment of the Danube River at the foot of Castle Hill. It is a striking component of the Hungarian baroque Royal Palace, also known as the Buda Palace. (...)
The Royal Garden Pavilion was designed by Miklós Ybi, an important nineteenth-century Hungarian architect, and built between 1875 and 1882 on the embankment of the Danube River at the foot of Castle Hill. It is a striking component of the Hungarian baroque Royal Palace, also known as the Buda Palace. It was built as part of a large-scale remodeling and enlargement of the palace, which coincided with major developments in the newly unified city of Budapest. Several rooms were created under the arches and used by artists for cultural events and as painting schools for women.
The pavilion is one of the few structures that remained largely intact after numerous assaults on the property in the twentieth century. During the siege of Budapest in World War II the site suffered heavy bombing, and in the 1960s, planned restoration activities were never fully realized. In the 1970s and 1980s, the complex was home to the Budapest Youth Park, the birthplace of Hungarian pop and rock music and much visited and used. However, the site could not handle the masses of visitors and after serious damage to the property, the park and pavilion were closed.
