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Sándor Palace / Sándor-palota, President residence

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Sándor Palace / Sándor-palota, President residence

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Location: Budapest, Hungary

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The Sándor Palace (Hungarian: Sándor-palota) is a palace next to the Buda Castle complex in the ancient Castle District, serving as the official residence and workspace of the President of Hungary since 2003.
The original Neoclassical style palace was built 1803 - 1806. Count Vincent Sándor commissioned it, and it was named after him. Count Vincent Sándor was a philosopher and aristocrat in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His son Count Móric Sándor de Szlavnicza (1805–1878) was better known for acrobatics.
The palace next belonged to Archduke Albrecht, the Imperial Governor of Hungary, until the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1848. After that the palace and its adjacent buildings facing the square were rented as government offices.
The most prestigious tenant was the Hungarian Prime Minister Gyula Andrássy, who in 1867 leased it for the Hungarian government from the Pallavicini family. He would later obtain ownership of the palace following a property swap. Andrassy renovated the building, which by then was badly in need of repair, with the help of the architect Miklós Ybl. He renovated the ground floor and used it as his offices, while the first floor became his residence.In all, nineteen Hungarian Prime Ministers have lived in the palace, each adapting the building to their own tastes.
After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, Sándor Palace continued as the Prime Minister's residence until World War II. In 1941, during the war, the grief-stricken Pál Teleki committed suicide in the palace. Less than four years later, Allied aircraft bombed Sándor Palace, and the building was left in ruins. Anything in the palace that was of value was taken as war booty. Although the ruins did not fall victim to the bulldozer, the palace remained neglected until the Revolutions of 1989.
Following the change from the Communist political system in Hungary in 1989, and thanks to a devoted team of restoration workers, a roof was erected over the ruins and the walls were supported. Over the years, Sándor Palace was gradually restored to its former glory, and the interior renovated in 2002. Most of the furnishings and objects are replicas of the originals that had been destroyed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1ndor_Palace,_Budapest

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