The city center of Szeged is wearing festive clothes this year as well. The central location of the festive preparations will be Dóm tér, but of course the whole city will shine with Christmas decorations and there will be giant reindeer and Santa’s sleigh.
Szeged legújabb uszodája, a Tiszavirág Sportuszoda fedett, akadálymentesített épülete télen-nyáron várja a sportolni vágyókat. 50 méteres versenymedencéjével, tanmedencéjével, bemelegítő medencéjével, valamint külső-belső lazító ülőmedencéjével számos klub, egyesület sportolójának biztosít edzési […]
The Nobel portrait plaque representing Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize can be seen on permanent display in the exhibition space of the Attila József Study and Information Center of SZTE. As […]
Votive Church After the Great Flood (1879) destroying the city, the people of Szeged made an oath to build a majestic catholic church. Following a long period of planning and […]
Did you know that the Indians used hot peppers as tear gas and as a form of punishment? the word paprika originated in the Szeged area and is known all […]
There is a campsite for 700 people in the common area with a beach bath, with suitable service facilities for those arriving by tent and caravan. We can provide accommodation […]
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 […]
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 […]
This corner building dominantly shaping the cityscape is a masterpiece of the late Art Nouveau in Szeged. Its capriciously animated facades can be attributed to the architect’s imagination forced to distance himself from Art Nouveau and to the designer’s sober intuition under the pressure to return to Eclecticism.
The indoor exhibitions feature: Cubic exhibition Open-air exhibition: Objects Here the important steadings of dike-reeve houses (storerooms, workers’ hostel, barn, pig sty, wooden corn silo) are displayed. Of course, today […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Indóház square is one of the gates of Szeged, as most of the visitors who come to the city by train, arrive here. The square has been playing an important […]
Szeged was one of the favorite towns of King Matthias Corvinus. In 1456 John of Capistrano led his troops from here to Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade), to support Matthias’s father, John Hunyadi […]
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 […]
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 […]
It is a late Art Nouveau, 2-storey building in whose facade, formed as an arched ridge, the stylish and moderate application of brick-facing and striped ornaments deserves our attention.
The architect’s palace in Szeged is larger and more imposingly executed, yet it is more modest in comparison with its counterpart in Subotica, failing to reach its outstanding unity of style and the elaboration of its details.
Today nobody would think that this undistinctive and characterless apartment house once was one of the most remarkable buildings of the Szeged Art Nouveau.
The current sight of the Schäffer Palace confronts us indeed with how much Szeged’s cityscape lost when in the 1920s, the house owners, complaining about the costly maintenance, almost totally […]
The dwelling house of two upper vocational school teachers on Lechner Square exemplifies excellently that the novel spirit of the Art Nouveau inspiringly influenced the attitude of the contemporary middle class.
he palace attracts our attention mainly owing to its position in the cityscape and of course, to its spectacular facade as well as to its unusual siting.
Owing to the playfulness, extravagant animation and asymmetry of the facade, this beautifully renovated building is a unique example of the geometric Art Nouveau.
The Iron House was given its name after its spectacular shape. Looking from a distance at its facade sectioned by the strikingly marvellous, masterly executed corner pinnacle, ledges and bay windows, we may suppose that it is a historic monument.
The Beregi House is one of the gems in the splendid row of palaces of the Szeged’s cityscape, which primarily is an extraordinary example of the brick architecture and Art Nouveau architectural school.
Szeged’s popular riverside beach can be found in Újszeged, 10-minute walk from the city center.
“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 Art Deco building of the Belvárosi Cinema was built in 1920 according to the plans of the architect Endre Sebestyén. Today it is the only cinema in the country […]
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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.
The complete length of the riveris 725 km, out of which only 48 km pass through Hungary.
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.
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.
Situated in Újszeged in the line of Belvárosi Bridge, the largest park of Szeged has an area of 15 hectares.
You can see the remnants of the gate Maria Teresia of the former castle behind the museum.
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.
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.
The square was named after the designer of the building complex in Dóm Square, the first remarkable figure in Hungarian landscape architecture.
In the centre of the square of irregular shape stands the nicely proportioned equestrian statue of Ferenc Rákóczi II.
The square was named after the piarist priest and teacher András Dugonics, the writer of the first Hungarian novel (Etelka, 1788).
The value preserving reconstruction of Kárász Street and Klauzál Square was recognised with the Europe Nostra Award in 2004.
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…
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.
The observatory located in Újszeged was built by the Szeged Observatory Foundation more than twenty years ago.
The biochemist Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893-1986) carried on his researches started in Cambridge and Groeningen at the University of Szeged as the head…