Felsőbüki Nagy (Szapáry) Mansion

The Szapáry Mansion near the river Répce—in just a fifteen-minute walk from Park Hotel to reach—is one of the finest examples of Baroque architecture, reserving relatively much of its original Baroque character. The predecessor of the building might once have been a water fortress in the Felsőbük part of Bük, because only 50 meters from the main building was a four tower building to see, from which one tower remained until the present days. The monument, that is more than 300 years old, is one the oldest buildings of the town. It is now privately owned and closed from the public. In the late 1960s, the mansion was converted into a hotel preserving its heritage monument character, later in 1972, it was opened as a castle hotel—the first one in Hungary. After that it was closed in 1994 and the hotel stood abandoned for nearly 15 years before finding a new owner in 2007, who began a professional reconstruction without implementing major changes in the building’s character. Passersby can nowadays admire the renewed exterior from the outside.