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Gül Baba’s Tomb
This reconstructed tomb contains the mortal remains of Gül Baba, an Ottoman dervish who took part in the capture of Buda in 1541 and is known in Hungary as the ‘Father of Roses’. The tomb and mosque are a pilgrimage place for Muslims, especially from Turkey, and you must remove you
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Cave Church
This chapel is on a small hill directly north of the landmark Art Nouveau Danubius Hotel Gellért. The chapel was built into a cave in 1926 and was the seat of the Pauline order in Hungary until 1951, when the priests were arrested and imprisoned by the Communists and the cave seale
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Foundry Museum
This museum – a lot more interesting than it sounds – is housed in the Ganz Machine Works foundry that was in use until the 1960s, and the massive ladles and cranes still stand, anxiously awaiting employment. Alas, time and progress have frozen them still. The exhibits also include
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Harrer Chocolate Factory
Sopron’s answer to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, the Austrian confectioner dynasty Harrer aims to initiate you into the mysteries of pralines, truffles, flavoured chocolate and so much more. Visits to the factory (book in advance) involve a video on the production of chocolate,
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Old Lake
Tata’s focal point and its most striking feature is the vast lake, around which you’ll find a smattering of other attractions. This ‘Wetland of International Importance’, protected by the Ramsar Convention, attracts a considerable number and variety of waterfowl, such as migrating
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Kerepesi Cemetery
Budapest’s equivalent of Londons Highgate or Paris Père Lachaise, this 56-hectare necropolis was established in 1847 and holds some 3000 gravestones and mausoleums, including those of statesmen and national heroes Lajos Kossuth, Ferenc Deák and Lajos Batthyány. Maps indicating the
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Paprika Museum
Along with Szeged, Kalocsa is the largest producer of paprika, the piros arany (red gold) so important to Hungarian cuisine. You can learn a lot more than you need to know about its development (it was first mentioned in documents way back in the 16th century), production and benef
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Hungarian Agricultural Museum
This rather esoteric museum is housed in the stunning baroque wing of Vajdahunyad Castle . Built for the 1896 millenary celebrations on the little island in the park’s lake, the castle was modelled after a fortress in Transylvania – but with Gothic, Romanesque and baroque wings and
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Nine
The Nine-Hole Bridge, built in 1833 and spanning the marshy Hortobágy River, is the longest – and certainly the most sketched, painted and photographed – stone bridge in the country. Just in front stands the still-operating Hortobágyi Csárda, one of the original eating houses (1781
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Sóstó Museum Village
Nyíregyházas most interesting sight is the skanzen (open-air museum) in Sóstófürdő. Its two dozen reconstructed structures – three-room cottages, school, wells, fire station, general store, church and even a cemetery (with Jewish headstones) – offer an easy introduction to the trad
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Millenary Monument
In the centre of Heroes Sq (Hősök tere) is a 36m-high pillar backed by colonnades to the right and left. Topping the pillar is the Angel Gabriel, holding the Hungarian crown and a cross. At the base are Árpád and the six other Magyar chieftains who occupied the Carpathian Basin in
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Gyula Castle
Gyula Castle, overlooking a picturesque moat, was originally built in the mid-15th century but has been expanded and renovated many times over the centuries. Two dozen rooms are done up as medieval living quarters; in the vaulted former chapel theres a small museum tracing the hist
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Ferenc Móra Museum
The erstwhile Palace of Education built in 1896 now houses this excellent museum containing a colourful collection of folk art from Csongrád County as well as traditional trades. After the 1879 flood claimed many of the walls of Szeged’s riverfront castle built around 1240, the cit
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National Theatre
Hard by the Danube in southwestern Ferencváros, the National Theatre opened in 2002 to much controversy. The design, by architect Mária Siklós, is supposedly ‘Eclectic’ to mirror other great Budapest buildings (Parliament, Opera House). The overall effect, however, is a pick-and-mi
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Fishermen’s Bastion
The bastion is a neo-Gothic masquerade that looks medieval and offers among the best views in Budapest. Built as a viewing platform in 1905 by Frigyes Schulek, the architect behind Matthias Church, the bastion’s name was taken from the medieval guild of fishermen responsible for de
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Kalocsa Cathedral
Kalocsa Cathedral (1754) was completed by András Mayerhoffer and is a baroque masterpiece, with a dazzling pink-and-gold interior full of stucco, reliefs and tracery. Some believe that the sepulchre in the crypt is that of the first archbishop of Kalocsa, Asztrik, who brought King
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All Saints’ Church
The suburb of Budaiváros to the northeast of Pécs town centre is where most Hungarians settled after the Turks banned them from living within the city walls. The centre of this community was the All Saints Church. Originally built in the 12th century, it was reconstructed in Gothic
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Hungarian Museum of Naive Artists
Arguably the city’s most interesting museum and one of the few of its kind in Europe, the Hungarian Museum of Naive Artists is in Stork House (1730) just off Petőfi Sándor utca. There are lots of folksy themes here, but the warmth and craft of Rozália Albert Juhászné’s work, the dr
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Diósgyőr Castle
Four-towered Diósgyőr Castle, almost an icon of Miskolc, is in a suburb 7km to the west. Begun in the 13th century, it was heavily damaged early in the 18th century and was only restored – very insensitively in some places – in the 1950s. Tour the castle’s history displays, wax mu
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Kiscell Museum
Housed in an 18th-century monastery, this museum contains two excellent sections. In the Contemporary City History Collection (Újkori Várostörténeti Gyűjtemény) you’ll find a complete 19th-century apothecary brought from Kálvin tér; a wonderful assembly of ancient signboards advert
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