What to see

Szent István Square and the Water Tower

Szent István Square and the Water Tower

A nicely created park and a curiosity in the history of industry, the country’s first water tower made of reinforced concrete await visitors in Saint Steven Square.

Arad Martyrs Square

Arad Martyrs Square

In the centre of the square of irregular shape stands the nicely proportioned equestrian statue of Ferenc Rákóczi II.

Sport Swimming Pool

Sport Swimming Pool

The Sport Swimming Pool is located on the Újszeged district of the town, it’s easily accessable with a ten-minutes walk from the downtown. The 50 m pool is open-air in summer time and topped throughout the winter. It provides a training and competitive area for various sports clubs.
Everey day of the week the pool is opened for evening swimming.

Maros backwater

Maros backwater

The maros backwater was separated from the bend of river Maros in 1860 as part id the river-contolling operation. Now it is a more that 4 km long oxbow with a width of 10-15 m.

Dóm Square

Dóm Square

The square with exactly the same area as the Saint Mark Square in Venice (12,000 sq m), bordered by elegant, northern European style buildings.

Somogyi Library

Somogyi Library

Károly Somogyi, prebendary of Esztergom, aimed to make a contribution to the ‘mental’ reconstruction of the city in ruins after the flood by giving Szeged his priceless collection of books in 1881.

Votive Church

Votive Church

After the Great Flood (1879) destroying the city, the people of Szeged made an oath to build a majestic catholic church.

St. Demetrius Tower

St. Demetrius Tower

Outside the Votive church stands the Saint Demetrius Tower, the oldest architectural relic of the city.

Reök Palace

Reök Palace

The architect Ede Magyar was thirty in 1907, when he constructed Reök Palace, an exemplary piece of Hungarian secession.

Sándor Koch Mineral Collection

Sándor Koch Mineral Collection

The collection named after Professor Sándor Koch, a passionate researcher of mineralogy, and one-time head of the Institute of Mineralogy and Petrology of the university in Szeged.

Traditional Rural House Museum in Alsóváros

Traditional Rural House Museum in Alsóváros

The God’s Eye motive of the main altar in the Alsóvárosi Church (Lower Town Church), the radial lines, became recognizable ornaments of the houses in lower town.

Protestant Church

Protestant Church

The building designed by Frigyes Schulek, completed in 1884, is also called the ‘Cockerel church’ owing to the figure decorating its tower.

Observatory

Observatory

The observatory located in Újszeged was built by the Szeged Observatory Foundation more than twenty years ago.

Musical clock

Musical clock

The tunes of this unique piece of art by watchmaker Ferenc Csúri could be first heard at the Open Air Festival in 1936.

City Hall

City Hall

The present City Hall is the third building in the same place with the same function. The first building of a modest design was raised in 1728. It was followed by the second one with the same area as the present hall, designed by István Vedres at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Szeged Military Park

Szeged Military Park

Since the era of Maria Theresa, corps, barracks have always been present in Szeged but unfortunately, there are no active corps presently. Thus, the young people, the future generations and the tourists cannot see the beauties of military life at close quarters.

Franciscan Visitor Centre in Alsóváros

Franciscan Visitor Centre in Alsóváros

Situated in Alsóváros, Szeged, the monastery and the church together form Hungary’s second largest church complex, keeping its original function.

Dugonics Square

Dugonics Square

The square was named after the piarist priest and teacher András Dugonics, the writer of the first Hungarian novel (Etelka, 1788).

Sándor Koch Mineral Collection

Sándor Koch Mineral Collection

The collection, devoted to the passionate mineralogical researcher and professor Sándor Koch, former head of the Institute of Mineralogy and Petrology at the University of Szeged, consists of two main…

Alsóvárosi Church

Alsóvárosi Church

The Franciscan church dedicated to Our Lady of the Snows and the cloister nearby are precious architectural heritages of Szeged.

Magyar Ede tér

Magyar Ede tér

Ede Magyar (Ede Oszadszki) is the outstanding representative of Art Nouveau architecture in Szeged. He graduated at the Budapest State College of Building Industry and following his foreign studies he…

Water Tower in St. Steven Square

Water Tower in St. Steven Square

The tower, which can hold 1004,8 m3of water, was designed by Szilárd Zielinski.

Dorozsma Rural House

Dorozsma Rural House

The sights of Szeged include the Dorozsmai Country House and the Farmer’s House. Szeged-Kiskundorozsma is a place where you can see the folk and the “bourgeois” material, intellectual culture of…

Móra Ferenc Museum

Móra Ferenc Museum

The most impressive product of the building fever of the millennium in Szeged is the Palace for Public Education built in neo-classicist style in 1896.

Szent György square

Szent György square

Szent György tér (Saint George Square) at József Attila Avenue, received its name after an old church. The Saint George Church, probably built in the 13th century, stood at the…

Szent-Györgyi Albert Agóra

Szent-Györgyi Albert Agóra

The centre was opened in December 2012 with the aims of presenting the research results of the region in a simple and understandable way and directing children’s attention to natural sciences.

Béla Rerrich Square

Béla Rerrich Square

The square was named after the designer of the building complex in Dóm Square, the first remarkable figure in Hungarian landscape architecture.

Erzsébet Park

Erzsébet Park

Situated in Újszeged in the line of Belvárosi Bridge, the largest park of Szeged has an area of 15 hectares.

Széchenyi Square

Széchenyi Square

The western walls of the castle built on the bank of the River Tisza in the 13th century were situated in the present Széchenyi Square…

Zoo Szeged

Zoo Szeged

The Zoo of Szeged, 45 hectares located in wooded environment only 2,5 km from the city center, offers even one-day programs to visitors. It features animals according to continents, trying…

Interactive Science Knowledgestore

Interactive Science Knowledgestore

How many legs does a centipede have? How many different kinds of falcons live in Hungary? What does antimony-glance look like?

Szent-Györgyi Albert Memorial Room

Szent-Györgyi Albert Memorial Room

The biochemist Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893-1986) carried on his researches started in Cambridge and Groeningen at the University of Szeged as the head…

Reök Palace

Reök Palace

The architect Ede Magyar was thirty in 1907, when he constructed Reök Palace, an exemplary piece of Hungarian secession.

Lechner square

Lechner square

It is a spacious, grassy square among low buildings, with the Saint Rosalie Greek Catholic chapel in the middle, which is a witness of Szeged’s history and it was moved…

Anna Bath

Anna Bath

The white-walled eclectic style building in Tisza Lajos Boulevard, reflecting Oriental effects, designed by Antal Steinhardt and Adolf Lang, was built in 1896. Originally it functioned as a city public bath. It took its name from the nearby artesian well drilled in 1927 and its water.

Botanical Garden

Botanical Garden

When the University of Kolozsvár moved to Szeged in 1922, the city donated a land of 20 kh to it to establish a botanical garden.

Fortress Museum

Fortress Museum

The fortress in Szeged was built in the second half of the 13th century, probably with the extension of the already existing fortress.

The River Maros

The River Maros

The complete length of the riveris 725 km, out of which only 48 km pass through Hungary.

Albert Szent-Györgyi Memorial Room in Déri Miksa High School

Albert Szent-Györgyi Memorial Room in Déri Miksa High School

  The building of the school was built in 1914. It worked as a military hospital during World War I, and from 1921 it also served as a medical chemistry…

New Synagogue

New Synagogue

“Love your neighbour as yourself.” The biblical commandment can be read in Hebrew and Hungarian on the triumphal arch of the New Synagogue built in 1903. The use of the…

The River Tisza

The River Tisza

The river Tisza is the longest river in Hungary, it has its source in the Eastern Carpathians and it meets the Danube flowing through Serbia.

Roosevelt tér

Roosevelt tér

In the XX. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Makai Market was held on Roosevelt Square, which was replaced by a park in the thirties. Later, in the…

Serbian Orthodox Church

Serbian Orthodox Church

The Serbian Orthodox Church stands on the northern side of the square, close to the bank of the River Tisza.

Old Synagogue

Old Synagogue

The nicely preserved monument built between 1837 and 843 was created by the Lipovszky brothers, Henrik and József.

Napfényfürdő Aquapolis Szeged

Napfényfürdő Aquapolis Szeged

The four-season ‘water-city’ awaits its visitors with a water surface of 4,400 m2 and the longest waterslide working all year round in Europe. The bath complex offers entertainment for all age groups. The main attractions of the facility opened in 2010 are the 223 and 272 meter long giant tube slides starting from a 30 meter high tower accessible with lifts.

Klauzál Square

Klauzál Square

The value preserving reconstruction of Kárász Street and Klauzál Square was recognised with the Europe Nostra Award in 2004.

Black House

Black House

The building standing at the corner of Somogyi and Kelemen Street is unique in its style, appearance and location.

Glattfelder Gyula square

Glattfelder Gyula square

Gyula Glattfelder was born in Budapest in 1874 in a rich, Swabian, industrialist family from Mór. He finished his secondary school studies at the Piarists in Budapest and at the…

Deutsch Palace

Deutsch Palace

It was designed by Mihály Erdélyi with majolica ornaments in green, blue and orange and built between 1900 and 1902.

Móricz House

Móricz House

The secessionist style, four-storey historic building stands on the southern side of Saint Steven Square.