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Houses of Worship
There are many houses of worship in the inner city. Dominating Kossuth tér, the red-brick neo-Romanesque Roman Catholic cathedral dating from 1904 has arabesque painted pastel-coloured tiles inside. Near Kálvin tér the Greek Catholic church , built in 1895, contains a rich liturgi
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Nicolas Schöffer Collection
An exhibition of the futuristic work of the Paris-based modern artist Nicolas Schöffer (1912–76), who was born in Kalocsa and is celebrated for his kinetic sculptures, can be seen at this small but enlightening museum. Near the bus station, Schöffer’s Chronos 8 kinetic light tower
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Petőfi Museum of Literature
Just north of Egyetem tér and housed in the sumptuous neoclassical Károly Palace (Károlyi Palota), dating from 1840, this museum is devoted to Sándor Petőfi and has great examples of period furniture and dress. Temporary exhibitions explore other Hungarian poets such as Endre Ady,
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Clark Ádám tér
Víziváros begins at this square named after the 19th-century Scottish engineer who supervised the building of the Széchenyi Chain Bridge and who designed the all-important tunnel (alagút) under Castle Hill, which took just eight months to carve out of the limestone in 1853. What lo
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Batthyány tér
The centre of Víziváros, Batthyány tér is the best place to take pictures of the photogenic Parliament building across the Danube. On the southern side is the 18th-century baroque Church of St Anne, with one of the most eye-catching interiors of any baroque church in Budapest, incl
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Roman Ruins
As the plaque on the ground in Fő tér reminds you, Sopron used to be an important stop along the Amber Road, and fragments of Sopron’s Roman past – in the form of reconstructed Roman walls and outlines of 2nd-century buildings – can be found at the open-air ruins behind the city’s
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Holy Right Chapel
This chapel contains the Holy Right (also known as the Holy Dexter), the mummified right hand of St Stephen and an object of great devotion. It was returned to Hungary by Habsburg empress Maria Theresa in 1771 after it was discovered in a monastery in Bosnia. Like the Crown of St S
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Napoleon House
The trivia that accompanies this building is of greater interest than its present-day contents – a small art gallery. A certain diminutive French conqueror spent the night here on 31 August 1809 after his troops took the castle and wrecked it. Why did Monsieur Bonaparte choose Győr
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Vörösmarty tér
At the northern end of Váci utca lies Vörösmarty tér, a large square of smart shops, galleries, cafes and an artist or two, who will draw your portrait or caricature. In the centre is a statue of Mihály Vörösmarty, the 19th-century poet after whom the square is named. Made of Itali
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County Hall
It is worth taking the time to check out the architecture in the centre. If you can, visit the eclectic (1892) County Hall on Hősök tere, with its splendid Ceremonial Hall (Nagy Terem); the blue-and-white Art Nouveau building on Országzászló tér, which houses a bank and offices; or
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Gyógy tér
This leafy square is home to the State Hospital of Cardiology , which put Balatonfüred on the map. In the centre you’ll encounter the Kossuth Pump House (1853), a natural spring that dispenses slightly sulphuric, but drinkable, thermal water. If you can ignore the water’s pale-yell
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Ervin Szabó Central Library
Southeast of the national museum is the main repository of Budapest’s public library system, with access to 930,000 books, 1000 periodicals and 66,000 audio-visual and digital items. Completed in 1889 and exquisitely renovated, the public reading room has gypsum ornaments, gold tra
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Elizabeth Bridge
A gleaming white (though rather generic-looking) suspension bridge dating from 1964, Elizabeth Bridge enjoys a special place in the hearts of many Budapesters, as it was the first newly designed bridge to reopen after WWII (the original span, erected in 1903, was too badly damaged
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Underground Railway Museum
In the pedestrian subway beneath V Deák Ferenc tér, next to the main ticket window, the small Underground Railway Museum traces the development of the capital’s underground lines. Much emphasis is put on the little yellow metro (M1), Continental Europe’s first underground railway,
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Lutheran Church
This very central church on the south side of V Deák Ferenc tér, designed by Mihály Pollack in 1799, is one of the best examples of early neoclassical architecture in the city. In the attached presbytery, which also functioned as a school (attended at one point by the poet Sándor P
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Hungarian State Opera House
The neo-Renaissance Hungarian State Opera House was designed by Miklós Ybl in 1884 and is among the city’s most beautiful buildings. Its facade is decorated with statues of muses and opera greats such as Puccini and Mozart, while its interior dazzles with marble columns, gilded vau
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Károly Viski Museum
This museum is very rich in folk art, and highlights the life and ways of the Swabian (Sváb), Slovak (Tót), Serbian (Rác) as well as the Magyar peoples of the area. Its surprising to see how colourful interiors of peasant houses became as wealth increased; walls, furniture, doors –
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Egyetem tér
Recently repaved and boasting new lighting, seating, water features and shade sails, ‘University Sq’ takes its name from the branch of the prestigious Loránd Eötvös Science University located here. Attached to the main university building to the west is the lovely baroque 1742 Univ
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Váci utca
The capital’s premier shopping street is a pedestrian strip crammed largely with chain stores, touristy restaurants and a smattering of shops and sights worth seeking out. Its more unique spots include the Art Nouveau interior of the Philanthia flower shop at No 9; Thonet House at
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János Xánthus Museum
Győr’s main museum is named after a local 19th-century traveller and naturalist. The exterior of this peach-coloured museum building with its all-seeing eye is as interesting as the collection, parts of which are a philatelist’s wet dream. You have to trawl through the fairly ho-hu
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