Eger Castle

A castle famous for its heroic defence in 1552, when a small garrison, with the help of the women of the town, held off a huge Ottoman army. The castle museum tells the story, with underground passages. The baroque town below has the northernmost Ottoman minaret in Europe, which you can climb.

Eger is famous for its red wine, Egri Bikavér ('Bull's Blood'); taste it in the wine cellars of the Valley of the Beautiful Women, just outside the town. Eger is about 2 hours by train from Budapest.