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Lővér Hills
This range of 300m- to 400m-high foothills of the Austrian Alps, some 5km south and southwest of the city centre, is Sopron’s playground. It’s a great place for hiking and walking, but is not without bitter memories, for it was here that partisans and Jews were executed by Nazis an
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Basilica Minor
Just north of the castle, the Basilica Minor is one of Hungarys largest Gothic hall churches (those within castle walls), and has flip-flopped from serving Catholics to Protestants and back many times since the 14th century. The enormous baroque altar was moved here from the Carmel
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Parliament
The Eclectic-style Parliament, designed by Imre Steindl and completed in 1902, has 691 sumptuously decorated rooms, but you’ll only get to see several on a guided tour of the North Wing: the main staircase and landing; the Domed Hall, where the Crown of St Stephen , the nation’s mo
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Dezső Laczkó Museum & Bakony Ethnographical House
The Dezső Laczkó Museum is south of Megyeház tér. It has archaeological exhibits (the emphasis is on the Roman settlement at Balácapuszta), a large collection of Hungarian, German and Slovak folk costumes, and superb wooden carvings, including objects made by the famed outlaws of t
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Imre Varga Collection
This collection includes sculptures, statues, medals and drawings by Varga (b 1923), one of Hungary’s foremost sculptors. Like others before him, notably Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl, Varga seems to have sat on both sides of the fence politically for decades – sculpting Béla Kun and L
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Old Synagogue
Új utca was known as Zsidó utca (Jewish St) until the Jews were evicted from Sopron in 1526 after being accused of plotting with Turks. It features a remnant of the medieval community’s existence – the Old Synagogue, built in the 14th century and containing two rooms, one for each
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Zsolnay Cultural Quarter
The biggest project to evolve out of the 2010 Capital of Culture has been the Zsolnay Cultural Quarter, a development that sprawls across 4.5 hectares on the grounds of the original Zsolnay Family Factory. Divided into four quarters (craftsman, family and childrens, creative and u
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Animal Parks
There are two open-air zoos in the national park south of Hortobágy village. The Puszta Animal Park , 2km south of the Nine-Hole Bridge, with its weird and wonderful animals, is a fun place for kids of all ages. Heres youll see the rare breeds of the puszta up close: the heavy-set
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Timewheel
The Timewheel in ‘Procession Sq’ on the park’s western edge and directly behind the Palace of Art is the world’s largest hourglass, standing 8m high and weighing in at 60 tonnes. Unveiled on 1 May 2004 to commemorate Hungary’s entry into the EU, it provocatively stands a short dist
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Lyceum
Directly opposite the basilica is the recently renovated Zopf-style Lyceum (1765). The 60,000-volume library on the 1st floor of the south wing contains hundreds of priceless manuscripts and codices. The trompe l’oeil ceiling fresco (1778) depicts the Counter-Reformation’s Council
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Tagore Sétány
Seemingly the entire town seems to stroll the leafy lake-hugging promenade all day; it gets especially crowded in the early evenings. But if you tear your eyes away from the lake youll discover the promenade hides a number of statues, including a bust of Nobel Prize–winning poet R
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City Hall
The sandy-pink Town Hall, where youll find the Tourinform office, is a lovely late-19th-century building designed by Ödön Lechner. With a mixture of Art Nouveau/Secessionist and folkloric elements, Lechner produced a uniquely Hungarian style. The exterior tilework is from the renow
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Imre Patkó Collection
Journalist and art historian Imre Patkó was a traveller and an art collector, and this is a fascinating trawl through his life’s trappings. In the 20th-century art collection, the dark Bone Music , the sombre Burned People and the mesmerising Ice World stand out. On the 3rd floor,
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Ethnography Museum
Visitors are offered an easy introduction to traditional Hungarian life at this sprawling museum opposite Parliament with thousands of displays in a dozen rooms on the 1st floor. The mock-ups of peasant houses from the Őrség and Sárköz regions of Western and Southern Transdanubia a
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Mohács Historical Memorial Site
The Mohacs Historical Memorial Site at Sátorhely (literally ‘encampment’), about 6km southwest of Mohács and a kilometre off route 56, was opened in 1976 to mark the 450th anniversary of the Mohács battle. It’s a fitting memorial to the dead over a common grave that was only disco
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Fő tér
Fő tér, Kezthelys colourful main square, received a facelift in 2012 – the result is a traffic-free, pedestrian-friendly expanse of newly laid white cobblestone surrounded by lovely buildings, including the late-baroque Town Hall on the northern side, the Trinity Column (1770) in t
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Széchenyi tér
Surrounded by largely baroque buildings, Pécs sprawling main square is the hub of the city – on summer days everyone gathers here to relax, unwind with a scoop of ice cream and people-watch. The square is anchored by the Trinity Column in the centre and, further down at the southe
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Budapest Zoo
This huge zoo, which opened with 500 animals in 1866, has an excellent collection of big cats, hippopotamuses, polar bears and giraffes, and some of the themed houses (eg Madagascar, wetlands, nocturnal Australia) are world class. Away from our furred and feathered friends, have a
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Museum of Military History
Loaded with weaponry dating from before the Turkish conquest, this museum also does a good job with uniforms, medals, flags and battle-themed fine art. Exhibits focus particularly on the 1848–49 War of Independence and the Hungarian Royal Army under the command of Admiral Miklós Ho
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Mór Wosinszky County Museum
This museum, purpose-built in 1895, contains objects left behind by some of the various peoples who passed through the Danube Basin ahead of the Magyars. Don’t miss the fine Celtic and Avar jewellery and the large folk collection of Serbian, Swabian and Sárköz artefacts. Three peri
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