Várpalota’s Thury Castle Refurbished

  • 12 Mar 2015 8:00 AM
Várpalota’s Thury Castle Refurbished
The refurbished courtyard of the Thury Castle in western Hungary’s Várpalota has been inaugurated in a ceremony. As a result of the refurbishment project, completed out of 142 million forints (EUR 465,000) in European Union funding, the Renaissance castle is now complete with a new paint workshop presenting ancient painting techniques, a screening room, as well as an exhibition hall with pieces of equipment of torture used in bygone centuries.

“Those that embark on building castles nowadays are people planning for the long term,” Speaker of Parliament László Kövér said at the ceremony.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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