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After two palaces of the archbishop elector of Trier now I show you a Hungarian episcopal palace. It was built between 1780 and 1803 in Zopf (late Baroque) style, just after the founding of the diocese by Pope Pius VI and Queen Maria Teresia.

Székesfehérvár (106 000 inhabitants, for her location click on the map function) was a royal residence in the Middle Ages where 37 kings were crowned. (Traditionally a ruler was considered as legal king in the medieval Hungary if
1. crowned in Székesfehérvár
2. with the Holy Crown
3. by the prince-archbishop of Esztergom, by the way the only person in medieval Hungary with the rank of prince - except the descendants of the king, of course).

When looking at carefully, you can observe four flags on the balcony: the golden-silver papal flag (evident on an official building of the Roman Catholic Church), the red-white-green Hungarian national flag (also evident), the blue flag of the European Union (which also should be evident but seldom used on ecclesiastical buildings in Hungary) and the blue-red flag of Székesfehérvár. This letter one is an absolute curiosity, I have never seen a town flag on an ecclesiastical building in Hungary elsewhere.

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