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Ferenc Medgyessy Memorial Museum
The Déri Museums entrance in Piac utca is flanked by four superb bronzes by sculptor Ferenc Medgyessy, a local boy who merits his own Medgyessy Museum in an old burgher house to the northeast of the Déri Museum.
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National Bank of Hungary
The National Bank of Hungary has reliefs that illustrate trade and commerce through history: Arab camel traders, African rug merchants, Chinese tea salesmen and the inevitable solicitor witnessing contracts.
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Nagy Strand
Nagy Strand is centre stage on Petőfi sétány; free concerts are often held here on summer evenings. There are many more managed swimming areas along the lakeshore, which cost around the same as Nagy Strand.
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Minaret
This 40m-high minaret, topped incongruously with a cross, is one of the few reminders of the Ottoman occupation of Eger. Nonclaustrophobes will brave the 97 narrow spiral steps to the top for the awesome views.
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Early Christian Tomb Chapel
The early Christian tomb chapel dates from about AD 350 and has frescoes of Adam and Eve and Daniel in the lion’s den. Two Roman tomb sites containing 110 graves from the same era are a little further south.
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Franciscan Church of St Nicholas
On the eastern side of Kossuth tér is the Franciscan Church of St Nicholas, dating in part from the late 14th century. It was shared by squabbling Catholics and Protestants during the Turkish occupation in the 16th century.
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Former Swedish Embassy
The former Swedish Embassy on Gellért Hill bears a plaque attesting to the heroism of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat and businessman who, along with others, rescued as many as 35,000 Hungarian Jews during WWII.
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House of Hungarian Photographers
An extraordinary venue in the city’s theatre district, with top-class photography exhibitions. It is in Mai Manó Ház, which was built in 1894 as a photo studio and worth a visit in itself. There’s a great cafe here too.
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Imre Kálmán Museum
North of the weather observatory, on narrow Hock János köz, you’ll reach the Imre Kálmán Museum. It is devoted to the life and works of the composer of popular operettas, Imre Kálmán, who was born in Siófok in 1882.
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Holocaust Exhibition
Also called the Hungarian Tragedy 1944, this small exhibition tells the tragic story of the deportation and annihilation in Nazi concentration camps of 450,000 Hungarian Jews in the space of just a few months in 1944.
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Church of the Holy Spirit
The interior of this 15th-century church is rather dark, but if you time your visit for midday, you’ll be able catch a glimpse of some fine wall and ceiling frescoes by Dorfmeister, as well as a stupendously ornate altar.
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House of the Two Moors
Fashioned from two 17th-century peasant houses, the ornate gate of this house is guarded by two large statues, previously painted an exaggerated black to represent the darker-skinned Moors, which are now painted white.
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Fidelity Gate
Fidelity Gate at the bottom of the Firewatch Tower (tűztorony) shows Hungaria receiving the civitas fidelissima (Latin for the most loyal citizenry) of Sopron. It was erected in 1922 after that crucial referendum.
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Hungarian Franciscan Memorial Library
The former Franciscan Monastery (built 1730) contains the only historical archive in Hungary to have survived the Turkish occupation intact. Among its 14,000 volumes are some of the rarest books written in Hungarian.
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Hassan Jakovali Mosque
Though wedged between two modern buildings, this 16th-century mosque is more intact than its larger cousin, the Mosque Church , and comes complete with a minaret. Theres a small museum of Ottoman history inside.
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Reök Palace
The Reök Palace is a mind-blowing green and lilac Art Nouveau structure built in 1907 that looks like an aquarium decoration. It’s been polished up to its original lustre and now hosts regular photography and visual arts exhibitions.
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Piarist Church
The extremely rich Piarist church was built in 1836 in the neoclassical style. The red marble altar stone (1467) diagonally opposite outside the parish office at No 27 is the oldest piece of Renaissance stonework in Hungary.
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Dominican Church
Dominating the southeast side of Március 15 tér is the 18th-century Dominican (or White Friars) Church. Its interior is richly decorated in the baroque and rococo styles, but the doors are normally locked outside service times.
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Vaszary Villa
This beautifully restored villa (1892), once the residence of the Vaszarys, exhibits some works of the best-known family member, the painter János Vaszary, as well as a wonderful collection of arts and crafts from the 18th century.
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Imre Nagy Statue
Southeast of V Kossuth Lajos tér is an unusual statue of Imre Nagy standing in the centre of a small footbridge. Nagy was the reformist Communist prime minister executed in 1958 for his role in the uprising two years earlier.
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