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Arboretum
There is a splendid arboretum in Bánk, the centre of Puszta Forest (Erdőspuszta).
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Déri Museum
Folklore exhibits at the Déri Museum offer excellent insights into life on the puszta and the bourgeois citizens of Debrecen up to the 19th century. Mihály Munkácsy's mythical interpretations of the Hortobágy and his Christ's Passion take pride of place in a separate art gallery.
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Flea Market
Away from Debrecen's city centre, the colourful flea market attracts a motley group of Ukrainians, Poles, Romanians, Roma and Hungarians from Transylvania who hawk everything from socks to live animals.
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Great Church
Many of Debrecen's big sights are at the northern end of Piac utca, including the yellow neoclassical Great Church. Built in 1821, it has become so synonymous with Debrecen that mirages of its twin clock towers were reportedly seen on the Great Plain early last century.
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Medgyessy Museum
The Déri Museum's entrance in Piac utca is flanked by four superb bronzes by sculptor Ferenc Medgyessy, a local boy who merits his own Medgyessy Museum in an old burgher house to the northeast of the Déri Museum.
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Puszta Forest
If you want to see more of the great outdoors, head for the Puszta Forest, a protected area of pine and acacia forests, lakes and trails a few kilometres to the east and southeast of Debrecen.
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Reformed College
North of the Great Church stands the Reformed College, built in 1816, the site of a prestigious secondary school and theological college since the Middle Ages. Downstairs, there are exhibits on religious art and sacred objects (including a 17th-century chalice made from a coconut) and on the school's history, where 'early to bed, early to rise' was the motto.
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Status Que Conservative Synagogue
The Status Que Conservative Synagogue dates from 1909 and is once again falling apart, while the façade of the nearby Orthodox synagogue (Pászti utca 6) has enjoyed a lick of paint but its interior is still waiting for some much-needed TLC.
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Tímárház
The Tímárház is a folk-craft centre and workshop, where embroiderers, basket weavers, carvers and so on do their stuff in rotation.
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