Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue

Few capitals stage themselves as grandly as Budapest along the Danube. The World Heritage property inscribed by UNESCO in 1987 takes in the river panorama and the Buda Castle Quarter — with remains reaching from the Roman town of Aquincum to Buda's Gothic castle — and later grew to include Andrássy Avenue, layers that trace the great chapters of Hungarian history through one of the world's finest urban landscapes.