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István Bocskai Museum
The Bocskai Museum is a temple to the memory of Prince István Bocskai and his hajdúk (Heyduck) helpers. Among the saddles, pistols and swords hangs Bocskais banner – the standard of the Heyduck cavalry, picturing the prince doing battle with a leopard (which mysteriously changes in
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Georgikon Farm Museum
Housed in several early-19th-century buildings of what was the Georgikon’s experimental farm, the Georgikon Farm Museum is the perfect museum for lovers of early industrial farming tools and farming techniques, with exhibits on the history of viniculture in the Balaton region and t
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Transportation Museum
The Transportation Museum has one of the most enjoyable collections in Budapest and is a great place for kids. In old and new wings there are scale models of ancient trains (some of which run), classic late-19th-century automobiles, sailing boats and lots of those old wooden bicycl
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Liszt Academy
The Art Nouveau Liszt Academy, built in 1907, attracts students from all over the world and is one of the top venues for concerts. Having undergone an extensive renovation to restore much of its interior to its original style and function, it reopened in 2014, with improved access,
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Ottó Herman Museum
The Ottó Herman Museum has two branches. This, the main branch, southeast of the city centre, has one of the countrys richest regional collections of Hungarian paintings dating from the 18th to 20th centuruies. Also here is a large assembly of Neolithic finds (many from the Bükk re
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Margit Kovács Ceramic Collection
This branch of the City Art Museum is devoted to the celebrated Győr-born ceramicist Margit Kovács (1902–77). Many of her works deal with rural and family life and have touches of folk art and religious imagery, while her later pieces are more abstract. While her best work is locat
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Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art
Housed in the architecturally controversial Palace of Arts opposite the National Theatre, the Ludwig Museum holds Hungary’s most important collection of international contemporary art. Works by American, Russian, German and French artists span the past 50 years, while Hungarian, Cz
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Liberty Monument
The Liberty Monument, the lovely lady with the palm frond proclaiming freedom throughout the city, is to the east of the Citadella. Some 14m high, she was raised in 1947 in tribute to the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Budapest in 1945, but the victims’ names in Cyrillic lette
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Storno House
Storno House, built in 1417, has an illustrious history, not least because King Matthias stayed here in 1482–3, and Franz Liszt played a number of concerts here in the mid-19th century. Later it was taken over by the Swiss-Italian family of Ferenc Storno, chimney sweep turned art r
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Béla Bartók Memorial House
North of Szilágyi Erzsébet fasor, this house (1924) is where the great composer resided from 1932 until 1940, when he emigrated to the US. The visit is by guided tour and includes seeing the old Edison recorder (complete with wax cylinders) that Bartók used to record Hungarian folk
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Március 15 tér
Vács renovated main square has the towns most colourful buildings, including the Town Hall (1764), considered a baroque masterpiece. Note the statue of Justice and the seals held by the two figures on the gable – they represent Hungary and Bishop Kristóf Migazzi, the driving force
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Hungarian Natural History Museum
A fin-whale skeleton greets you at Budapests Natural History Museum, which houses a raft of interactive displays over three floors. Interesting exhibits focus on the biodiversity of coral reefs and the natural resources of the Carpathian Basin. Noahs Ark, part of the new Variety of
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Kiskunság National Park
Totalling 76,000 hectares, Kiskunság National Park consists of nine islands of protected land, though much of it is off-limits. Bugac (population 2715), a village 30km southwest of Kecskemét, is the most accessible part of the park. The highlight of a trip here is the the popular c
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Synagogues
Debrecen had a Jewish population of 12,000 people up to the end of WWII. The Status Que Conservative Synagogue , just south of Bajcsy-Zsilinszky utca, dates from 1909. The facade of the older 1893 Orthodox synagogue has had a lick of paint but its interior is still waiting for a m
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Serbian Ecclesiastical Art Collection
The Serbian Ecclesiastical Art Collection is a treasure trove of icons, vestments and other sacred objects in precious metals. A 14th-century glass painting of the crucifixion is the oldest item on display; a ‘cotton icon’ of the life of Christ from the 18th century is unusual. Tak
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Laser Point Image Museum
One of provincial Hungarys largest and most unusual museums has something for everyone – from Carpathian Basin folk costumes and disappearing crafts to odds and ends from the socialist era, including motorbikes, posters and consumer goods. Add to that old office machines and and o
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Andrássy út
Andrássy út starts a short distance northeast of Deák Ferenc tér and stretches for 2.5km, ending at Heroes’ Sq (Hősök tere) and the sprawling City Park (Városliget). On Unescos World Heritage list, it is a tree-lined parade of knock-out architecture and is best enjoyed as a long st
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Jurisics tér
The former market square, where miscreants were put in stocks during medieval times, is one of Hungary’s prettiest. The facade of the red-and-yellow Town Hall , a mixture of Gothic, Renaissance, baroque and neoclassical styles, features three coats of arms: those of Hungary, Kőszeg
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Hungarian Orthodox Church
The tourist board likes to vaunt Miskolc as the ‘city of churches’, and it isn’t wrong. The Hungarian Orthodox Church, a splendid late-baroque structure, has a Greek Orthodox iconostasis (1793) that is 16m high with 64 icons. A guide will escort you to the impressive Orthodox Eccle
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Kossuth tér
This square southeast of Széchenyi tér has two important buildings: the Eclectic town hall (1891) to the north and synagogue to the east. The synagogue was built in the Romantic style in 1869, and a seven-page fact sheet, available in 11 languages, explains the history of the buil
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