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All Saints' Church
The suburb of Budaiváros to the northeast of Pécs' town centre is where most Hungarians settled after the Turks banned them from living within the city walls. The centre of this community was the All Saints' Church. Originally built in the 12th century, it was reconstructed in Gothic style 200 years later.
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Basilica of St Peter
The foundations of the four-towered Basilica of St Peter - or simply székesegyház (cathedral) - date back to the 11th century and the side chapels are from the 1300s. But most of what you see today of the neo-Romanesque structure is the result of renovations carried out in 1881. Guided tours are conducted in Hungarian and German and cost around Ft2000 .
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Bishop's Palace
The Bishop's Palace, dating to 1770, to the southwest of Dóm tér is only open to groups (and even then, rarely), but have a look at the curious statue of Franz Liszt (Imre Varga; 1983), peering over from a balcony.
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Church of the Good Samaritan
The rather gloomy Church of the Good Samaritan is behind the porcelain Zsolnay Fountain to the southeast of Széchenyi tér.
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early Christian tomb chapel
The early Christian tomb chapel, across Janus Pannonius utca, dates from about AD 350 and has frescoes of Adam and Eve, and Daniel in the lion's den.
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Garden of Ruins
You can get a taste of the Mecsek Hills by walking northeast from the centre of Pécs to Tettye and the Garden of Ruins, what's left of a bishop's summer residence built early in the 16th century and later used by Turkish dervishes as a monastery.
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Havi-hegy Chapel
To the northeast of Pécs' town centre up on a hill is Havi-hegy Chapel, built in 1691 by the faithful after the town was spared the plague. The church is an important city landmark, and offers wonderful views of the inner town and the narrow streets and old houses of the Tettye Valley.
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Jug Mausoleum
The entrance to the Jug Mausoleum, a 4th-century Roman tomb whose name comes from a painting of a large drinking vessel with vines found here is on the southern side of the baroque Ecclesiastical Archives (Egyházi levéltár) in Dóm tér.
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synagogue
The synagogue was built in the Romantic style in 1869, and a fact sheet, available in 11 languages, explains the history of the building and the city's Jewish population. Shortly after the fascist Hungarian government established a ghetto in Pécs in May 1944, most of the city's 3000 Jews were deported to the Nazi death camps; only 150 Jews now live in the city.
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