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Fabricius House
The baroque Fabricius House was built on Roman foundations and is divided into three distinct sections. The main archaeological exhibition covers Celtic, Roman and Hungarian periods of history on its lower floors, the standout artefact being the 1200-year-old Cunpald Goblet – don’t
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Other Houses of Worship
Southeast of the Hungarian Orthodox Church stands the large Orthodox Synagogue , designed in 1861 by Ludwig Förster, architect of the Great Synagogue in Budapest. The Calvinist Plank Church is a 1938 replica of a 17th-century Transylvanian-style wooden church. It has been completel
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Fő Utca
Fő utca is the arrow-straight ‘Main St’ running from Clark Ádám tér through Víziváros; not surprisingly, it dates from Roman times. At the former Capuchin church you can see the remains of an Islamic-style ogee-arched door and window on the southern side; it was used as a mosque du
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Pesti Vigadó
Pesti Vigadó, the Romantic-style concert hall built in 1864 but badly damaged during WWII, faces the river to the west of Vörösmarty tér. Reopened in 2014 after a 10-year closure and reconstruction, the building has been fully restored to its former grandeur. Additional space has b
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Hungarian National Museum
The Hungarian National Museum houses the nation’s most important collection of historical relics in an impressive neoclassical building, purpose built in 1847. Exhibits trace the history of the Carpathian Basin from earliest times to the end of the Avar period, and the ongoing stor
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New Synagogue
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Mátra Museum
It’s hard to believe the fine old Orczy manor house that now holds the lions share of the Mátra Museum began as a family hunting lodge in the 1760s. Here youll find exhibits dealing with the history of Gyöngyös in the 18th and 19th centuries, area ethnography and a room dedicated t
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Palóc Museum
The Palóc Museum in Palóc Park (a lovely green space of mature trees and grassy corners, and perfect for a picnic) was purpose-built in 1914 to house Hungarys richest collection of Palóc artefacts and is a must for anyone planning to visit traditional villages in the Cserhát Hills.
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Máta Stud Farm
Staged it may be, but the puszta show at the 300-year-old Máta Stud Farm, 3km north of the village, is Hungarian. During the 1½-hour program you (and about 50 others) ride in a horse-drawn wagon train across the prairie, making stops to peer into the pens of racka sheep, see great
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Citadella
The Citadella is a fortress that never saw a battle. Built by the Habsburgs after the 1848–49 War of Independence to defend the city from further insurrection, the structure was obsolete by the time it was ready in 1851 because the political climate had changed. Today the Citadella
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Boldogkő Castle
Perched atop a basalt mountain, Boldogkő Castle, literally Happy Rock Castle, is exactly what most people imagine a castle to be - impossibly perched on solid rock, its strong walls and turrets command 360° views of the southern Zemplén Hills, the Hernád Valley and nearby vineyards
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Zsolnay Porcelain Museum
The Zsolnay Porcelain Museum traces the history of the porcelain factory established in Pécs in 1853. At the forefront of European art and design for more than half a century, many of its majolica tiles were used to decorate buildings throughout the country and contributed to estab
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House of Terror
The headquarters of the dreaded secret police have been turned into the striking House of Terror, an engrossing and evocative museum focusing on the crimes and atrocities of Hungarys fascist and Stalinist regimes. The years leading up to the 1956 Uprising get the lions share of the
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Jurisics Castle
Dominating the Old Town, and originally built in the mid-13th century, the four-towered fortress has been reconstructed several times due to a major fire and is now a hotchpotch of Renaissance arcades, Gothic windows and baroque interiors. It is here that Miklós Jurisics heroically
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Fertő
The flat expanse of the Fertő-Hanság National Park begins almost at Sopron’s easterly border. Made up of reedy marshland and a slither of Lake Fertő (most of the lake lies in Austrian territory), the park is a paradise for birds, and therefore bird lovers. White egrets, godwits, gr
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Margaret Island
Neither Buda nor Pest though part of district XIII, 2.5km-long Margaret Island in the middle of the Danube was always the domain of one religious order or another until the Turks arrived and turned what was then called the Island of Rabbits into - appropriately enough - a harem, fr
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Basilica of St Peter
The foundations of the four-towered basilica dedicated to St Peter date from the 11th century and the side chapels are from the 1300s. But most of what you see today of the neo-Romanesque structure is the result of renovations carried out in 1881.The most interesting parts of the b
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Castle Hill Caves
Below Castle Hill is a 28km-long network of caves formed by thermal springs that contain a couple of attractions. The caves were used for military purposes during the Turkish occupation, as air-raid shelters during WWII, and as a secret military installation during the Cold War. To
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Domokos Kuny Museum
The remains of the medieval Old Castle - one of four original towers and a palace wing - were rebuilt in neo-Gothic style at the end of the 19th century to mark a visit by Emperor Franz Joseph. Today they house the Domokos Kuny Museum. On the ground floor are archaeological finds f
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Basilica of St Stephen
Budapest’s neoclassical cathedral was built over half a century and completed in 1905. Much of the interruption had to do with a fiasco in 1868 when the dome collapsed during a storm, and the structure had to be demolished and then rebuilt from the ground up. The basilica is rather
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