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Visegrád

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Visegrád is a castle town in Pest County, Hungary, on the right bank of the Danube at the Danube Bend north of Budapest. The town holds the remains of the Early Renaissance summer palace of King Matthias Corvinus and a medieval citadel. On 15 February 1991 it hosted a meeting between the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary that founded the Visegrád Group, which took its name from the town. It had a population of 1,864 in 2010.

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