StrataHistory underfoot

The library of ground

Every place Strata has dug, assembled from its sources and filed by locality and era. A place is reviewed again whenever the ground beneath it is dug afresh.

528 places · 215 localities · last reviewed 27 October 2026
Hungary BudapestBudapest's ground spans a royal castle hill taken by the Ottomans and shelled in two sieges, a Danube promenade and palace built for insurers and emperors, and city districts holding synagogues, Lutheran churches, mills, and sites of wartime killing and resistance along the river. 12 digs
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A Ferencváros street corner Haller utca · 100 BC–now A Danube embankment in Pest, Budapest Salkaházi Sára rakpart · 1443–now A street near Deák Ferenc tér József Attila utca · 1541–2024 A cultural center on Andrássy Avenue Andrássy út · 1541–now A Budapest boulevard corner Teréz körút · 1777–2016 A private gold museum, now closed Andrássy út · 1500–now A street in Rákospalota Régi Fóti út · 43–now A domed Lutheran church on Régi Fóti út Régi Fóti út · 1735–now City Park promenade Kós Károly sétány · 1811–now Danube Promenade Vigadó tér · 300–2019 A castle hill street in Buda Hunyadi János út · 1255–1971 An Art Nouveau palace, now a hotel Zrínyi utca · 1541–2004
Hungary Godolloi JarasNear Mogyoród, ground that carried Roman-era pottery and a decisive battle in 1074 later lay emptied by Ottoman rule before being reshaped in 1985–86 into the Hungaroring, the first Formula One circuit behind the Iron Curtain. 1 dig
13 records Hungary Esztergomi JarasEsztergomi Jaras centres on the hill below Esztergom's basilica, where Szent István tér and its Dark Gate tunnel gather centuries of change: Roman settlement, medieval church, Ottoman siege, archbishops' burials, a 1956 killing, and a factory's long tenancy in a canons' row. 1 dig
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