Millions of years ago, ash- and lava-spewing volcanoes lurked underneath the shallow Pannonian Sea, now the Pannonian Basin, on ancient land that has evolved into modern-day Hungary. Although these ...

The Hapsburgs, the Nazis and the Soviets have all left their mark on Eger, but from the castle’s Gergely Bastion, it’s the minaret, the northernmost point of the former Ottoman Empire, that draws my ...