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Small Lake
Small Lake (different to Öreg-tó, the vast Old Lake) is surrounded by the protected 200-hectare English Park – a relaxing place for a walk or a day of fishing. The park itself, which was established in 1783 by the Esterházy family, contains an open-air theatre and 18th-century foll
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Pharmacy Museum
Housed in a 19th-century pharmacy in a Gothic building just off the main square and under renovation at the time of writing, this collection of curios comprises an assortment of ancient pharmaceutical tools, cures and books. Look for oddities such as the amulet to ward off the evil
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Invisible Exhibition
This is a very unique interactive 1½-hour `tour of a half-different settings (bus, crossing the road, taking a bus) in the total darkness led by a blind or partially sighted person. The idea is to help participants understand what life is like without the one sense that provides us
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Puszta Animal Park
The Puszta Zoo, with its weird and wonderful animals, is a fun place for kids of all ages. You’ll find God’s acid experimentations here, too: the heavy-set Hungarian Grey Cattle, the curly-haired Mangalica pig, the Rasta-like Kuvasz dog and the Racka sheep, whose corkscrewlike horn
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Mária Valéria Bridge
Cross the bridge from Watertown over to Primate Island (Prímás-sziget) and to the southwest is the Mária Valéria Bridge, connecting Esztergom with the Slovakian city of Štúrovo. Destroyed during WWII, the bridge only reopened in 2002. The bridge’s original Customs House (Vámház) i
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Ladics House
A fascinating – and, for Hungary, unusual – museum is Ladics House, the perfectly preserved and beautifully furnished late baroque residence (1801) of Dr György Ladics and his prosperous bourgeois family. It offers an excellent look into what life was like in a Hungarian market tow
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Nagy Imre tér
Nagy Imre tér is home to the former Military Court of Justice on its northern side. Imre Nagy and others were tried and sentenced to death here in 1958 for their role in the 1956 Uprising. It was also the site of the notorious Fő utca prison , where many other victims of the Commun
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Török Bank House
A building worth a look in Belváros is the former TörökBank House , designed by Henrik Böhm and Ármin Hegedűs in 1906. It has an almost totally glass-covered facade and in the upper gable sports a wonderful Secessionist mosaic by Róth called Patrona Hungariae, which depicts Hungary
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Premonstratensian Church
This reconstructed Romanesque Premonstratensian Church dedicated to St Michael by the order of White Canons dates back to the 12th century. Its 15th-century bell mysteriously appeared one night in 1914 under the roots of a walnut tree knocked over in a storm. It was probably buried
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Franciscan Church
The 15th-century Gothic Franciscan church, rebuilt after the Turks were driven out, contains lovely 13th-century frescoes on the interior walls including religious imagery and the coat of arms of the Garai family (who had control over this area in the late 12th and early 13th centu
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Liberty Bridge
Opened in time for the Millenary Exhibition in 1896, Liberty Bridge (Szabadság híd) has a fin-de-siècle cantilevered span. Each post of the bridge, which was originally named after Habsburg Emperor Franz Joseph, is topped by a mythical turul bird ready to take flight. It was rebuil
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Bálint Balassi Museum
The Bálint Balassi Museum, in an 18th-century baroque building, has objects of local interest, with much emphasis on the churches and monasteries of medieval Esztergom. The museum is named in honour of the general and lyric poet who was killed during an unsuccessful attempt to reta
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New Budapest Gallery
Inside Bálna , the whale-shaped complex beached by the Danube, the New Budapest Gallery is a spare, modern space in a restored warehouse hosting changing exhibitions that aim to encompass a broad range of works by artists from the city. It focuses on those with ties to the internat
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Garden of Ruins
Here you’ll find some impressive remains of the Roman Savaria, excavated here since 1938. Don’t miss the beautiful mosaics of plants and geometrical designs on the floor of what was St Quirinus Basilica in the 4th century. There are also remains of Roman road markers, public baths,
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Astronomy Museum
The Astronomy Museum, on the 6th floor of the east wing of the Lyceum, contains 18th-century astronomical equipment and an observatory; climb three more floors up to the observation deck for a great view of the city and to try out the camera obscura, the eye of Eger, designed in 17
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Queen Elizabeth Statue
To the northwest of Elizabeth Bridge is s statue of Elizabeth, Habsburg empress and Hungarian queen. Consort to Franz Joseph, ‘Sissi’ was much loved by the Magyars because, among other things, she learned to speak Hungarian. She was assassinated by an Italian anarchist in Geneva in
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Fő tér
Fő tér, Kezthelys colourful main square, received a facelift in 2012 – the result is a traffic-free, pedestrian-friendly expanse of newly laid white cobblestone surrounded by lovely buildings, including the late-baroque Town Hall on the northern side, the Trinity Column (1770) in t
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Hungarian National Gallery
The Hungarian National Gallery is an overwhelming collection spread across four floors that traces Hungarian art from the 11th century to the present. The largest collections include medieval and Renaissance stonework, Gothic wooden sculptures and panel paintings, late Gothic winge
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Péter Váczy Museum
This is the private collection of an anticommunist history professor with a clear passion for antiques. Housed inside the late-Renaissance Hungarian Ispita , which was once a charity hospital, this eclectic assortment runs the gamut from Greek and Roman relics to Chinese terracotta
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Vác Cathedral
Tree-lined Konstantin tér, to the southeast of Március 15 tér, is dominated by the towns colossal cathedral, which dates from 1775 and was one of the first examples of neoclassical architecture in Hungary. The frescoes on the vaulted dome and the altarpiece are by the celebrated ar
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