What to see

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…

Szeged National Theatre

Szeged National Theatre

The theatre opened in 1883 is one of the most beautiful eclectic neo-baroque buildings of the town rebuilt from its ruins

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.

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…

Erzsébet Park

Erzsébet Park

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

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…

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.

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.

Attila József Education and Information Centre

Attila József Education and Information Centre

The education and congress centre of the University of Szeged.

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.

Stefánia

Stefánia

You can see the remnants of the gate Maria Teresia of the former castle behind the museum.

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.

St. Demetrius Tower

St. Demetrius Tower

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

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.

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.

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…

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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…

Black House

Black House

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

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.

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.

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.

Deutsch Palace

Deutsch Palace

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

Mátyás király tér

Mátyás király tér

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…

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.

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.

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.

Reök Palace

Reök Palace

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

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.

The River Maros

The River Maros

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

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…

Indóház Square

Indóház Square

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…

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…

Alsóvárosi Church

Alsóvárosi Church

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

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…

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).

Móra Park

Móra Park

The square in front of the Ferenc Móra Museum has become one of the city’s most popular recreational and cultural spaces in recent years. Following a comprehensive renovation, the area…

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.

Observatory

Observatory

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

Kiss Kunszt Gallery

Kiss Kunszt Gallery

The Kiss Kunszt Gallery is located in the city center of Szeged, next to the Anna Thermal Bath, just a few minutes’ walk from Széchenyi Square. The Kiss Kunszt Gallery…

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…

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…

Móricz House

Móricz House

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

Reök Palace

Reök Palace

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

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.

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