Gellért Hill (Hungarian: Gellért-hegy; German: Kelenberg, Osterberg or Blocksberg; Latin: Mons Sancti Gerhardi Turkish: Gürz İlyas Bayırı) is a 235 m (771 ft) high hill overlooking the Danube in Budapest, Hungary.

At the top of the hill, the Citadella (English: citadel) can be found with a nice panoramic view of the city.

[2] Gürz Elyas was a holy man from the Bektashi order whose shrine and grave on top of the hill was a place of pilgrimage in the 17th century.

The dense forest and rocks gave way to legends of witches holding their ceremonies on the hill.

On Easter Mondays a procession climbed the steep road leading to the calvary to celebrate the resurrection of Christ.

[6] The Citadella was built after the 1848–49 Hungarian uprising by the ruling Habsburgs, as it was a prime, strategic site for shelling both Buda and Pest in the event of a future revolt.

[7] At the end of the Citadella is the Liberty Statue (Szabadság Szobor in Hungarian), a large monument erected by the Soviet Red Army to commemorate their victory in World War II.

[8] Now an affluent residential area, a number of embassies and ambassadorial residences line the streets that wind up the hill.