Religious, Spiritual sights in Pécs
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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.
All Saints was the only Christian church allowed in Pécs during the occupation and was shared by three sects - who fought bitterly for every square centimetre. Apparently it was the Muslim Turks who had to keep the peace among the Christians.
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Basilica
Dom tér contains the four-towered basilica dedicated to St Peter. The foundations date as far back as the 11th century but most of what you see today of the neo-Romanesque structure is the result of renovations carried out in 1881. The most interesting parts of the basilica’s very ornate interior are the elevated central altar, the four 14th-century side chapels and the crypt, the oldest part of the structure.
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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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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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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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