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Ferenc Erkel Memorial House
The birthplace of Ferenc Erkel (1810–93), the man who composed operas and the music for the Hungarian national anthem, contains memorabilia about his life and work. A striking new extension has doubled the exhibition space here.
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Bishop’s Castle
This fortress-like structure with an attractive 14th-century tower (rebuilt in the 18th century) is partially closed to the public. You can, however, visit the exhibition inside the tower (ticket office is behind the Basilica).
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Anna
Bogdányi utca, Szentendres busy pedestrian street, leads north from Fő tér, where youll find the excellent Anna-Ámos Collection, displaying the surrealist and expressionist paintings of husband-and-wife team Margit Anna and Imre Ámos.
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Rippl
József Rippl-Rónai was born at Fő 19, above the lovely Golden Lion Pharmacy, built in 1774 and now a museum. Most of his work is exhibited in the Rippl-Rónai Memorial Museum, a graceful 19th-century villa about 3km southeast of the city centre.
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Cifra Mill
East of the old castle is the 16th-century Cifra Mill – the most intact of what is left of Tata’s 14 watermills – interesting for its red-marble window frames and five rapidly deteriorating water wheels lying against the eastern outside wall.
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István Báthory Museum
Housed in the 18th-century monastery next to the Minorite church, this museum showcase the trades of the town’s heyday – barrel-making, leatherworking, hat-making and pottery. It has some medieval pieces connected with the Báthory family.
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Village Museum
The award-winning Village Museum contains the usual three rooms of a Hungarian peasant house, with local folk pottery, painted furniture and embroidered pillows. In the backyard theres an interesting carved wine press dating from 1872.
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Požarevačka Church
Dedicated in 1763, this late-Baroque Serbian Orthodox church has a lovely iconostasis dating from 1742. The church is on the way into town from the bus and train stations and a good introduction to Szentendres predominant architecture.
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Music House
The apartment where Haydn lived, off and on, from 1761 to 1790 in the west wing of the baroque Music House, southwest of the palace, now contains the Joseph Haydn Memorial Hall on the 1st floor, a veritable temple to the great composer.
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Military Court of Justice
In 1958 Imre Nagy and others were tried and sentenced to death here for their role in the uprising two years before. It was also the site of the notorious Fő utca prison, where many other victims of the regime were incarcerated and tortured.
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Jug Mausoleum
The entrance to the Jug Mausoleum, a 4th-century Roman tomb whose name comes from a painting of a large drinking vessel with vines found here, is on the southern side of the baroque Ecclesiastical Archives (Egyházi levéltár) in Dóm tér.
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Pál Kiss Museum
Housed in a beautiful old manor (1840) and surrounded by parkland southeast of the Tourinform office, this fine old museum has a collection focusing on the everyday lives of Tisza fisherfolk and the work of local craftspeople, especially potters.
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Canal Locks
The Canal Locks system (by Baross Bridge), which was partly built by the Romans in AD 292 and used extensively by the Turks in the 16th and 17th centuries, can be seen from Krúdy sétány, the walkway near the ferry pier, or Baross Bridge to the south.
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Benedictine Abbey Museum
This museum, next door to the Abbey Church in the former Benedictine monastery, is entered from the church crypt. It contains exhibits on Lake Balaton, liturgical vestments, religious artefacts, a handful of manuscripts and a history of King Andrew.
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Pósa House
You should begin any tour of Veszprém in Óváros tér, the medieval market place at the bottom of Castle Hill. Of the many fine 18th-century buildings in the square, the most interesting is the late baroque Pósa House, built in 1793 and now a bank.
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Boundless Story
Local history exhibition on the 1st floor of Storno House, including curiosities from the old town hall, works by István Dorfmeister and a piano once played by Franc Liszt. A combined ticket with the Firewatch Tower and the Storno Collection costs 2500/1250Ft.
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Church of the Sacred Heart
The interior of this pointy neo-Gothic stunner, built in 1894, is the most beautiful for many miles around: a vivid blue that really sets off the geometric frescoes and the images of the saints on the stained glass windows – particularly striking on a sunny day.
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Toy Museum & Workshop
Next door to the Hungarian Museum of Naive Artists, this museum has a large collection of rather spooky 19th- and early-20th-century dolls. Also in the rows of glass cases are wooden trains and board games. The museum organises events and classes for kids.
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Nagytétény Castle Museum
In a baroque mansion in deepest south Buda, this branch of the Applied Arts Museum traces the development of European furniture – from the Gothic to Biedermeier styles (approximately 1450 to 1850) – with some 300 items on display in more than two dozen rooms.
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Mátyáshegy Cave
Budapest contains some 200 caves and several can be visited on walk-through guided tours (usually in Hungarian). Most of the hostels also offer adventurous 2½- to three-hour caving excursions to this cave, which is opposite to and links up with Pálvölgy Cave.
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