Gellért Hill
Gellért Hill is a 235 m high hill overlooking the Danube in Budapest, Hungary. It is located in the 1st and the 11th districts. The hill was named after Saint Gerard who was thrown to death from the hill.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 211 metres
- Description: hill in Budapest, Hungary
- Also known as: “Blocksberg”, “Gellert Hill”, “Gellert-hegy”, “Mount Gellert”, “Mount Gerhardus”, “Sankt Gerhardsberg”, and “Szent Gellért-Hegy”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Liberty Statue and Rudas Baths.
Liberty Statue
Photo: Karelj, Public domain.
The Liberty Statue or Freedom Statue is a monument at the east end of the Citadella on Gellért Hill in Budapest, Hungary. It commemorates those who sacrificed their lives for the independence, freedom, and prosperity of Hungary.
Rudas Baths
Water park
Photo: Elekes Andor, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rudas Bath or Rudas fürdő is a thermal bath in Budapest, Hungary which is claimed to have medicinal properties. It was founded in 1571/1572 during the time of Ottoman rule.
Gellért Hill Cave
Cave
Photo: Ramirez HUN, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Gellért Hill Cave is part of a network of caves within Gellért Hill in Budapest, Hungary. The cave is also referred to as "Saint Ivan's Cave", regarding a hermit who lived there and is believed to have used the natural thermal water of a muddy lake next to the cave to heal the sick.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tabán and Szentimreváros.
Tabán
Suburb
The Tabán usually refers to an area within the 1st district of Budapest, the capital of Hungary. It lies on the Buda side of the Danube, to the south of György Dózsa Square, on the northern side of Elisabeth Bridge and to the east of Naphegy.
Pest
Suburb
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pest is the part of Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, that lies on the eastern bank of the Danube. Pest was administratively unified with Buda and Óbuda in 1873.
Gellért Hill
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Pest County, Central Hungary, Hungary, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.48692° or 47° 29′ 13″ northLongitude
19.04456° or 19° 2′ 40″ eastElevation
211 metres (692 feet)Open location code
8FVXF2PV+QROpenStreetMap ID
node 963923001OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Ukrainian—“Gellért Hill” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Tozal Gellért”
- Azerbaijani: “Qellert (dağ)”
- Azerbaijani: “Qellert”
- Belarusian: “Гара Гелерт”
- Belarusian: “Гелерт”
- Bulgarian: “Гелерт”
- Cebuano: “Gellért-hegy”
- Chinese: “蓋勒特山”
- Czech: “Gellért”
- Czech: “Gellértova hora”
- Czech: “vrch Gellért”
- Dutch: “Gellértberg”
- Esperanto: “Monto Gellért”
- Estonian: “Gellérti mägi”
- Finnish: “Gellértinvuori”
- French: “Gellért-hegy”
- French: “Mont Gellért”
- German: “Gellértberg”
- German: “Gellérthügel”
- Hungarian: “Gellért-domb”
- Hungarian: “Gellért-hegy”
- Indonesian: “Bukit Gellért”
- Italian: “Collina Gellért”
- Italian: “Gellért-hegy”
- Italian: “Monte Gellert”
- Japanese: “ゲッレールトの丘”
- Japanese: “ゲッレールト山”
- Korean: “겔레르트 언덕”
- Korean: “겔레르트언덕”
- Latin: “Mons Gerardus”
- Latin: “Mons Gerhardi”
- Ossetian: “Геллерт”
- Persian: “تپه گلرت”
- Polish: “Góra Gellerta”
- Romanian: “Dealul Gellért”
- Russian: “Геллерт (гора)”
- Russian: “Геллерт”
- Russian: “Гора Геллерт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gellért-hegy”
- Slovenian: “Gerhardov hrib”
- Spanish: “Colina Gellert”
- Spanish: “Colina Gellért”
- Swedish: “Gellértberget”
- Turkish: “Gellért Tepesi”
- Ukrainian: “Геллерт”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Gellérthegy and Buda.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Citadella and Cerka-firka (Kőcsikós) játszótér.
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