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Savoy Mansion

TIME : 2016/2/18 20:14:06

From the HÉV station in Ráckeve, walk south along Kossuth Lajos utca to the Savoy Mansion, now a 30-room hotel facing the Ráckeve-Danube River branch. The domed manse with two wings was finished in 1722 in the baroque style for Prince Eugene of Savoy, who drove out the last of the Turkish occupiers from Hungary at the Battle of Zenta in 1697, by an Austrian architect who would later go on to design Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna.

The mansion was completely renovated and turned into a pricey hotel and conference centre in 1982. Concerts are held here in July and August.