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Former Jewish Community Centre
Among the buildings of interest in Szegeds one-time Jewish quarter is this former Jewish community centre built in 1902, which once served as an old-age home.
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Sunday flea market
The Sunday flea market, about 3km southwest of the inner town on Megyeri út, attracts people from the countryside, especially on the first Sunday of the month.
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György Ráth Museum
An overspill of Ferenc Hopp Museum exhibits are shown at the György Ráth Museum, in an Art Nouveau residence a few minutes’ walk southwards down Bajza utca.
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Csikász Galéria
Vár utca is home to a number of art galleries, including the the Csikász Galéria which exhibits everything from religious paintings to postmodernist sculpture.
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Heroes Square
This public space holds a sprawling monument constructed to honour the millennial anniversary (in 1896) of the Magyar conquest of the Carpathian Basin.
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Barbican
Fronted by a lovely garden, the circular barbican, the only stone bastion to survive in Pécs, dates from the late 15th century and was restored in the 1970s.
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Clock Tower
The octagonal wooden clock tower is a lot older than it looks. Made by József Éder in 1763, it once housed what may well have been Europe’s tiniest prison.
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Church of St Henry
This baroque Lutheran church with the tall steeple is dark and plain inside, as befitting its desire for austerity, but it does contain a few art treasures.
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University Church
Over the altar in this lovely baroque 1742 church is a copy of the Black Madonna of Czȩstochowa, revered in Poland. The church is often full of young people.
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Capuchin Church
At this church, used as a mosque during the Turkish occupation, you can see the remains of an Islamic-style ogee-arched door and window on the southern side.
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Orbán House Museum
Displays in this 17th-century farmhouse are devoted to ethnography – especially that of the Palóc people – and the history of the area that now forms Bükk National Park.
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Tímárház
East of the city centre, the Tímárház is a folk-craft centre and workshop, where embroiderers, basket weavers and carvers (but no tanners) do their stuff in rotation.
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Zsolnay Fountain
The porcelain Zsolnay Fountain, with a lustrous glaze and pagan bulls head, to the southeast of Széchenyi tér, was donated to the city by the Zsolnay factory in 1892.
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St Nicholas Cathedral
The rarely open Zopf Romanian Orthodox church, from 1812, has a beautiful iconostasis (you can try and get the key from the house just south of the church entrance).
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Vác Diocesan Museum
Housed in what was once the Palace of the Great Provost, this museum displays just a small portion of the wealth the Catholic Church amassed in Vác over the centuries.
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National Wine Museum
The National Wine Museum in the Labirintus restaurant traces the development of wine-making in Hungary and offers wine tastings of between five and nine vintages.
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Marzipan Museum
This combination museum and marzipan shop features intricate marzipan sculptures with colourful recreations of the Mosque Church, embroidered Hungarian lace and more.
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György Kepes International Art Centre
Egers newest gallery exhibits the work of Hungarian-born American artist and designer György Kepes, who is celebrated for – among other things – his light installations.
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Bank Palace
The sumptuous Bank Palace, built in 1915, was the home of the Budapest Stock Exchange for 15 years until 2007. It is now converted into a shopping gallery called Váci 1.
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András Jósa Museum
This huge museum built in 1918 has exhibits devoted to antiquities as far back as the Iron Age, the regions rich ethnography and Nyíregyházas history since the Middle Ages.
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