The reconstruction "cut away all that was bad, fallible and dirty and left what is usable," Viktor Orban said.

"This building was raised to oppress us, so they could keep a rebelling Pest under fire. This used to be the most hated part of the city; today, it is a bastion of Hungarian freedom," he said.

He said Hungary was straddling great civilisations. "Orthodoxy, the Muslim world and Western Christianity -- there is always something dangerous happening on the faultlines; maybe that is why Hungarians are champions of survival."

He called the Gellert Hill on the Danube bank a "historic vantage point and a place of pilgrimage for the nation".

 "It is only fitting that the exhibition on the stormy centuries of the Hungarian people has been set up here," he said.

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