Gyor - Bishop's Castle

(Local Name: Püspökvár) To the north of Bécsi kapu tér rises Káptalan Hill, surmounted by the Bishop's Castle (Püspökvár). Nothing remains of the first castle, built in the 11th C, during the reign of King Stephen; in the center of the present range of buildings stands the tower which was the 14th C residence of Bishop Kálmán, son of King Charles Robert of Anjou; the Bishop's coat-of-arms adorn the front of the tower. The Gothic chapel, near the tower, which bears the name of the Gyor Bishop Orbán Dóczy, forms part of additions built in 1481-86. After 1537 eight large bastions were added, on the lines of Renaissance fortresses; a part of the buildings was blown up by the French in 1809. Baroque and Historicist extensions were added in the 18th and 19th C.

The Castle Museum and Lapidarium are to be found in the Sforza bastion (entrance in Káptalan domb). A Diocesan Museum with some valuable religious utensils from the 14th-19th C. is housed in a former seminary dating from 1765. Below the bastions, on the walkway, stands an equestrian statue of King Stephen by Ferenc Medgyessy (1940).