Nagytétényi kastély
Nagytétény Palace, also known as Száraz-Rudnyánszky kastély, is today the furniture museum of the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest. This Baroque treasure sits in the 22nd district, on Kastélypark Street, where a Gothic predecessor once stood from the 13th century. The palace—from 1743 to 1751—was designed by András Mayerhoffer and built for Baron József Rudnyánszky and his wife Julianna Száraz, in the Grassalkovich style, on the site of a Roman villa rustica. It spent the Ottoman era as the home of high-ranking officers, and in 1716 György Száraz began significant reconstruction and expansion. After a 1904 fire and later World War II damage, the building was repurposed for museum use by the Ministry of Agriculture in 1948, with the first furniture exhibition opening in 1951. …
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