Taródi-vár
Taródi-vár (sometimes you’ll hear it called *Taródi Castle*) is one of Sopron’s best-known examples of Hungarian “visionary” architecture—and it all begins with a person, Taródi István. He was born in 1925 and died in February 2010, aged 85, and his grave is in Sopron’s Szent Mihály-temető. The story starts way earlier than the stone structure: in 1945, as he neared his twenties, Taródi lived with his parents and three brothers in a rental apartment in the city centre, and he began his first castle in the courtyard. By 1946—when he was already newly married—he’d finished a roughly eight-metre-tall wooden castle built from reused timber, with the plan that he’d rebuild it on land he could finally claim. On May 1st, 1951, he bought the property where the castle stands now and moved the wooden castle there, covering it with shingle roofing made from “pilled” waste boards. …
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