Várkerület

Várkerület

Várkerület

1st District of Budapest


The 1st District of Budapest is the Castle District (Hungarian: Várkerület or Budavár) and is the historical part of the Buda side of Budapest. It consists of the Buda Castle Hill and some other neighborhoods around it, like Tabán, Krisztinaváros and parts of Gellért Hill.

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Location

The Castle District is situated on the banks of the Danube, in the Buda side.

Neighbours of District I are (clockwise from north):

Landmarks

Politics

The current mayor of I. District of Budapest is Márta V. Naszályi (Dialogue).

The District Assembly, elected at the 2019 local government elections, is made up of 15 members (1 Mayor, 10 Individual constituencies MEPs and 4 Compensation List MEPs) divided into this political parties and alliances:[3]

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List of mayors

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Twin towns – sister cities

Várkerület is twinned with:[4][5]

Notes

  1. Coalition of MomentumDKMSZPDialogueLMP-Our Castle.
  2. He joined MDNP on 4 March 1996

References

  1. "94/2012. (XII. 27.) Főv. Kgy. rendelet a közterület- és városrésznevek megállapításáról, azok jelöléséről, valamint a házszám-megállapítás szabályairól" (in Hungarian).
  2. "A fővárosi kerületek, a megyei jogú városok, a városok területe, lakónépessége és a lakások száma" [The area of districts of the capital, of the towns with county's rights, resident population and number of dwellings]. Magyarország közigazgatási helynévkönyve 2016. január 1 [Gazetteer of Hungary 1 January 2016] (PDF). Hungarian Central Statistical Office. 2016. p. 21.
  3. "Testvérvárosaink". budavar.hu (in Hungarian). Várkerület. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  4. "Budavár új testvérvárosa: Savonlinna" (PDF). budavar.hu (in Hungarian). Várnegyet. 16 August 2018. Retrieved 23 June 2020.

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