Fisherman’s Bastion is a neo-Gothic and neo-Romanesque terrace on Buda’s Castle Hill in Budapest, built in the late 1800s purely for its panoramic views over the Danube and Pest, and named for the guild of fishermen once responsible for defending this stretch of the city walls.
The lower terraces of the Bastion are free and open nonstop, 24 hours a day, year-round. A ticket is only required to climb the upper towers and balconies, and only during the hours of roughly 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM in high season (June–September) and 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM in low season — outside those windows, including from Christmas Eve through New Year’s Day, the upper terrace is also free to enter.
The seven pointed towers symbolize the seven Magyar tribes that founded Hungary, and the view from either the free lower terraces or the paid upper level takes in Parliament, the Danube, and the Chain Bridge below.
