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St Elizabeth House
Opposite the Basilica Minor and housed in what was once a boys elementary school dating from the 16th century, St Elizabeth House contains a small but well-formed art collection as well as an assemblage of liturgical objects and vestments dating from the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Ferencesek utcája
One of Pécs’ most enjoyable pedestrian streets, Ferencesek utcája, runs east from Kórház tér to Széchenyi tér and boasts the magnificent baroque Franciscan Church dating from 1760 as well as another relic of the Turkish period: the ruins of the 16th-century Pasha Memi Baths .
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Modern Hungarian Gallery
The Modern Hungarian Art Gallery exhibits the art of Hungary from 1850 till today; pay special attention to the works of Simon Hollósy, József Rippl-Rónai and Ödön Márffy. More abstract and constructionist artists include András Mengyár, Tamás Hencze, Béla Uitz and Gábor Dienes.
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Capa Contemporary Photography Center
Named after the Hungarian-born photographer and Magnum cofounder Robert Capa (born Endre Friedmann; 1913–54) and housed in a renovated cultural centre dating back 100 years, the Capa Contemporary Photography Center seeks to show the best in contemporary visual arts in changing exhi
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Ark of the Covenant
Local tradition has it that in 1731, King Charles (Károly) III erected the ark, the city’s finest baroque monument, to appease the angry people of Győr after one of his soldiers accidentally knocked a monstrance containing the Blessed Sacrament out of the bishop’s hands during a re
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House of the Holy Crown
The presbytery of St Bartholomew’s Church, under renovation at the time of research, served as a safe house for the Crown of St Stephen three times from 1806 to 1809 during the Napoleonic Wars. Today it contains the city’s Ecclesiastical Treasury , a rich collection of liturgical o
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Holy Cross Church
Dominating the square is this 18th-century church, also known as the Great Church, one of architect Jakab Fellner’s works. Inside you’ll find modern ceiling frescoes and simple walls (simple for the baroque period, that is), as well as Fellner’s body in the crypt and his statue out
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Róza Szegedi House
The dramatic slopes and vineyards above the town centre are sprinkled with little wine-press houses and folk baroque cottages. One of these is the Róza Szegedi House, which belonged to the actress wife of the poet Sándor Kisfaludy from Sümeg. Established in 1790, it contains a lite
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Town Hall
The magnificent Town Hall is 18th-century baroque. Note the seals held by the two figures on the gable - they represent Hungary and Bishop Kristóf Migazzi, the driving force behind Vács reconstruction more than 200 years ago. The building next door at No 9 has been a hospital since
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Hollókő Church
The focus of the village’s spiritual and social life, this adorable wooden church is on the corner where Petőfi utca, the Old Village’s ‘other’ street, branches off from Kossuth utca. Built as a granary in the 16th century and sanctified in 1889, it is a fairly austere affair both
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Church of St Ignatius
Dating from 1641, this Jesuit and later Benedictine church, sits on the south side of the enormous Széchenyi tér – the town’s marketplace in the Middle Ages. The 17th-century white-stucco side chapels and the ceiling frescoes painted by the Viennese baroque artist Paul Troger in 17
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Roman Military Amphitheatre
Built in the 2nd century for the Roman garrisons, this amphitheatre, about 800m south of Flórián tér, could accommodate 6000 spectators. The rest of the military camp extended north to Flórián tér. Archaeology and classical-history buffs taking bus 86 to Flórián tér should get off
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Busóház
This museum is the place to come if you’re not in Mohács just before Lent. It tells the story of the Busójárás festival, from its origins as a South Slav spring rite to a fancy-dress mummery directed at the erstwhile enemy, the Turks. The horrifying devil’s and ram’s-head masks are
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Palóc Doll Museum
South of the narrow-gauge train stop, this cute little museum is well worth a visit. Rita Juhász Lovásné is not only an artist with her sculpted cloth dolls, she’s an ethnographer too – replicating each of the region’s three-dozen Palóc village costumes for different stages of lif
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Palace of Wonders
Subtitled the Centre of Scientific Wonder, the wonderful Palace of Wonders in the Campona shopping mall in south Buda is is a playhouse for children of all ages, with ‘smart’ toys and puzzles, most with a scientific bent and lots of interactive stuff, such as a wind tunnel, velvet
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Palace of Art
The Palace of Art, reminiscent of a Greek temple, is among the city’s largest exhibition spaces and now focuses on contemporary visual arts, with some three to four major exhibitions staged annually. Go for the scrumptious venue and the excellent museum shop. Concerts are sometimes
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Bedő House
Just around the corner from Kossuth Lajos tér is this stunning Art Nouveau apartment block (1903) designed by Emil Vidor. Now a shrine to Hungarian Secessionist interiors, its three levels are crammed with furniture, porcelain, ironwork, paintings and objets d’art . The lovely Sece
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Balaton Pantheon
The Balaton Pantheon has memorial plaques from those who took the cure at the hospital. The Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore was one of them. A bust of this Nobel Prize–winning man of letters stands on Tagore sétány before a lime tree that he planted in 1926 to mark his recovery fr
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Pasha Memi Baths
One of Pécs most enjoyable pedestrian streets, Ferencesek utcája, runs east from Rákóczi út to Széchenyi tér, where Király utca also becomes pedestrian. Youll pass the ruins of the 16th-century Pasha Memi Baths, three beautiful old churches and, on Király utca, the neo-rococo Pécs
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Szécheny Pharmacy Museum
Odds are, you’ve never purchased aspirin in such splendid surroundings. This working apothecary features a vaulted rococo ceiling, fabulous frescoes with religious and herbal themes, displays of mysterious ampoules, and a couple of politically incorrect statues of black savages, ho
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