The tourist board likes to vaunt Miskolc as the ‘city of churches’, and it isn’t wrong. The Hungarian Orthodox Church, a splendid late-baroque structure, has a Greek Orthodox iconostasis (1793) that is 16m high with 64 icons. A guide will escort you to the impressive Orthodox Ecclesiastical Museum near the main gate. Look out for the Black Madonna of Kazan, presented to the church by Catherine the Great, and the jewel-encrusted Mt Athos Cross, brought to Miskolc by Greek settlers in the 18th century.
