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Eger Basilica
A highlight of the town’s amazing architecture is Eger Basilica. This neoclassical monolith was designed in 1836 by József Hild, the same architect who later worked on the cathedral at Esztergom. A good time to see the place is when the ornate altars and a soaring dome create inter
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Báthory Castle
The starkly white, 15th-century Báthory Castle is a small fortified palace with a striking 2nd-storey loggia. The building is mostly used as a conference centre, but a couple of rooms are outfitted in Renaissance style. Also here is the Báthory Panoptikum, with 45 wax figures trac
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Castle Garden Palace
Castle Garden Palace is a lovely little renovated building with a fountain designed by Miklós Ybl in 1878. It was once a pump house for Castle Hill and is now a conference and events venue and can be inspected on weekdays. The dilapidated steps and archways across the road are all
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József Egry Museum
The József Egry Museum is devoted to the Balaton regions leading painter (1883–1951) and Hungarys equivalent to Kokoschka, an Austrian artist known for his experssionist art, especially landscapes and portraits. Many of his works powerfully capture the essence of village and fishin
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Szombathely Gallery
This grand modern art gallery specialises primarily in 20th-century Hungarian art, with numerous temporary exhibitions throughout the year. The permanent collection includes works by home-grown artists such as Gyula Derkovitzs, as well as a wealth of abstract and avant-garde works
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Vas Museum Village
On the banks of the city’s fishing lake, this open-air museum contains more than 40 18th- and 19th-century farmhouses (porták) moved here from two dozen villages in the Őrség region. The most interesting of these are the Croatian, German and ‘fenced’ houses and if you’re lucky, you
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Music History Museum
Housed in an 18th-century palace with a lovely courtyard, this wonderful little museum traces the development of music in Hungary from the 18th century to the present day in a half-dozen exhibition rooms. There are rooms devoted to the work of Béla Bartók, Franz Liszt and Joseph Ha
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Hungarian Ispita
To the east of Széchenyi tér is the late Renaissance Hungarian Ispita, once a charity hospital, which now houses the Péter Váczy Museum . Váczy, a history professor and avid antiques collector, managed to assemble quite an eclectic assortment of pieces, from Greek and Roman relics
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Weather Observatory
The headquarters of the Hungarian navy are near to Baross Bridge. The tower on the western tip of the canal entrance is the Weather Observatory of the National Meteorological Service (Országos Meteorológiai Szolgálat). Believe it or not, Lake Balaton can actually get quite rough wh
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German Minority Museum
Tata was predominantly German-speaking for centuries, and the Living Together for 1100 Years exhibition inside the Nepomucenus Mill explores all aspects of the German experience in Hungary, from traditional attire to photos of pro-Hitler marches before WWII. You have to be able to
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Ferenc Liszt Memorial Museum
This wonderful little museum is housed in the Old Music Academy, where the great composer lived in a 1st-floor apartment for five years until his death in 1886. The four rooms are filled with his pianos (including a tiny glass one), portraits and personal effects. Concerts (include
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National Pantheon
The National Pantheon – statues and reliefs of more than 100 notables running along an arcade around three sides of the square – is a crash course in Hungarian art, literature, culture and history. Even the Scotsman Adam Clark, who supervised the building of Budapests Chain Bridge,
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St Gellért Monument
Looking down on Elizabeth Bridge from Gellért Hill is a large and quite theatrical monument to St Gellért, an Italian missionary invited to Hungary by King Stephen to convert the natives. The monument marks the spot where, according to legend, pagan Magyars, resisting the new faith
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Matyó Museum
Your first port of call in the capital city of Matyóland is this museum, with rich displays explaining the regional differences and historical development of Matyó needlework – from white-on-white stitching and patterns of blue-and-red roses, to the metallic fringe that was banned
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Japanese Garden
This attractive garden at the northwestern end of the island has koi, carp and lily pads in its ponds, as well as bamboo groves, Japanese maples, swamp cypresses, a small wooden bridge and a waterfall. Just north on a raised gazebo is the Musical Fountain (Zenélőkút), a replica of
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Downtown Pottery House
One of the few active potters in town, Ambrus Sándor opens his studio to the public as Downtown Pottery House. His museum-worthy front room showcases all three indigenous Vásárhelyi styles. It takes little coaxing for him to give a pot-throwing demonstration or to show you the newe
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Carmelite church
The baroque Viennese Gate Sq is dominated to the south by the Carmelite church built in 1725. On the north and northwest side of the square and cutting it off from the river are the fortifications built in the 16th century to stop the Turkish onslaught, and a bastion that has serve
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Tokaj Museum
The Tokay Museum, in an 18th-century mansion built by Greek wine traders, leaves nothing unsaid about the history of Tokaj and the production of its wines. There’s also a superb collection of Christian liturgical art, including icons, medieval crucifixes and triptychs, Judaica from
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Ferenc Hopp Museum of East Asian Art
The Ferenc Hopp Museum of East Asian Art is housed in the former villa of its benefactor and namesake. Founded in 1919, the museum shows temporary exhibitions from its collection of Chinese and Japanese ceramics, porcelain, textiles and sculpture, Indonesian wayang puppets and Indi
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St Bartholomews Church
St Bartholomews Church, at the northeastern end of Fő tér, was built in the 14th century and is the largest Gothic church in Hungary. You’d hardly know it though, with the baroque restoration (including an unusual upper-storey gallery inside) that was carried out 400 years later. L
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