World Heritage Sites

Hungary joined the World Heritage Agreement in 1985 and incorporated it into Hungarian law in the form of a Regulation. The World Heritage Committee decided on the registering of two Hungarian sites, Budapest and Hollókő in the World Heritage List two years later in 1987. Since the summer of 2002 our homeland, this small country of 93 thousand square metres, is proud to have eight World Heritage Sites. Seven of our sites got registered in the cultural and natural treasure categories. Two of our cultural landscape sites (the Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst and the Fertő / Neusiedlersee cultural landscape) are transboundary properties of Hungary, Austria and Slovakia.

- Budapest Panorama with the riverbanks of the Danube; the Buda Castle Quarter; and Andrássy Avenue (1987, cultural)

- The Traditional Village of Hollókő and its natural Surroundings (1987, cultural)

- Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst (1995, natural)

- Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma and its Natural Environment (1996, cultural)

- Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta(Great Plains) (1999, cultural – cultural landscape)

- Early Christian Necropolis, Bural Chambers of Pécs (2000, cultural)

- Fertő / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape (2001, cultural – cultural landscape)

- Tokaj Wine Region, Historical Cultural Landscape (2002, cultural – cultural landscape)

- Mohács Busó Festival (2009, - intangible heritage)