Great Plain
Staged it may be, but the 1½-hour puszta show at the 300-year-old Máta Stud Farm, 3km north of Hortobágy village, is a real slice of Hungary. You get to…
Must-see attractions in Great Plain
Kecskemét
The sandy-pink, stepped-roof city hall (1895) was designed by Ödön Lechner. With a mixture of art nouveau/Secessionist and folkloric elements, Lechner…
Museum of Hungarian Naive Artists
Kecskemét
Arguably the city’s most interesting museum and one of the few of its kind in Europe, the Museum of Hungarian Naive Artists contains works with lots of…
Debrecen
North of the Great Church stands the Calvinist College, built in 1816 on the site of a theological college dating back to the mid-16th century. Downstairs…
Szeged
The recently renovated art nouveau New Synagogue, designed by Lipót Baumhorn in 1903, is the most beautiful Jewish house of worship in Hungary, if not the…
Kecskemét
Dating from 1902, the masterful art nouveau Ornamental Palace features multicoloured majolica tiles decorating its 'waving' walls. The palace contains the…
Debrecen
Built in 1822, the iconic Great Church accommodates 3000 people and is Hungary’s largest Protestant house of worship. The nave is rather austere apart…
Great Plain
Get up close with ailing feathered friends as they convalesce at the Bird Park & Clinic. Walk through the ‘hospital’ section of this sanctuary (including…
Szeged
The Reök Palace is a mind-blowing green-and-lilac art nouveau structure, built in 1907, that looks like a decoration at the bottom of an aquarium. It’s…
Votive Church Exhibition Centre
Szeged
This new exhibition space opened in the crypt of the Votive Church below Dom tér in 2016. It examines the history of the cathedral and the surrounding…
Great Plain
The Nine-Hole Bridge, built in 1833 and spanning the marshy Hortobágy River, is the longest – and certainly the most sketched, painted and photographed –…
Pászti Street Orthodox Synagogue
Debrecen
This beautiful pink synagogue built in 1893 has undergone a complete renovation and is once again open to the public. There are the remains of a mikvah in…
Leskowsky Musical Instrument Collection
Kecskemét
In a new location on leafy Rákóczi út, this private collection traces the development of music-making over the centuries. Of the 150 instruments on…
Kecskemét
This collection of period furniture, folk art, religious items and clocks amassed by the pack-rat painter János Bozsó (1922–98) is massive and endlessly…
Kecskemét
A Moorish-looking structure dating from 1871, this was once a synagogue and is now used for conferences and both temporary and permanent exhibitions,…
Kecskemét
The restored Otthon Cinema, on the corner of pedestrian Görögtemplom utca, is a beautiful example of art nouveau and Secessionist architecture mixed with…
Szeged
The Zopf-style Serbian Orthodox church in Dóm tér, dating from 1778, has a fantastic iconostasis: a central gold 'tree', with 70 icons hanging from its …
Szeged
This lovely Secessionist office building with floral mosaics was completed in 1913.
Debrecen
Folklore exhibits at the Déri Museum offer excellent insights into life on the plain and for the bourgeois citizens of Debrecen up to the 19th century…
Kecskemét
The late-baroque Great Church, dedicated in 1806, dominates Kossuth tér, the southeasternmost of the main squares. The interior is quite sombre. Large…
Szeged
The erstwhile Palace of Education (1896) now houses this excellent museum containing a colourful collection of folk as well as traditional trades from…
Great Plain
Board a horse-driven carriage (extra charge), drive or walk the 1.5km along a sandy track to the Herder Museum, a circular structure designed to look like…
Szeged
The twin-towered Votive Church is a disproportionate brown-brick monstrosity that was pledged after the flood in 1879 but not completed until 1930. About…
Great Plain
The Puszta Animal Park, 2km south of the Nine-Hole Bridge, with its weird and wonderful animals, is a fun place for kids of all ages. Here you'll see the…
Kecskemét
A dozen rooms of a 200-year-old brewery are crammed with embroidery, weaving, woodcarving, furniture, agricultural tools and textiles at the Folk Art…
Great Plain
As you'll discover at the small Hortobágy Inn Museum inside the Hortobágyi Csárda, the inn dates to 1781 and is one of the original eating houses used by…
Great Plain
Located about 7km south of Hortobágy village, this zoo hosts animals that lived on the puszta before it was farmed: wolves, jackals, wild horses, vultures…
Pick Salami & Szeged Paprika Museum
Szeged
Between the two bridges spanning the Tisza is this museum with two floors of exhibits showing the methods of salami production and the cultivating,…
Great Plain
Housed in an 18th-century carriage house across from the landmark Hortobágyi Csárda, this museum illustrates life on the plains for shepherds, swineherds…
Szeged
The Romanesque Demetrius Tower in Dóm tér is the city's oldest structure and is all that remains of a church erected here in the 12th century. It can be…
Great Plain
Upstairs at the Hortobágy National Park Visitor Centre, this exhibition tells the story of cranes on the plains, particularly about their annual migration…
Great Plain
Housed in a thatched cottage by the main entrance of the Máta Stud Farm, this small exhibition presents a dozen traditional carriages and coaches that…
Debrecen
East of the city centre, the Tímárház is a folk-craft centre and workshop run by the Debrecen Cultural Centre, where potters, cheesemakers, weavers and…
Szeged
This gate was erected in 1936 in honour of Miklós Horthy’s White Guards, who were responsible for ‘cleansing’ the nation of ‘reds’ after the ill-fated…
Debrecen
Debrecen had a Jewish population of 12,000 people up to the end of WWII. This Conservative synagogue, just south of Bajcsy-Zsilinszky utca, dates from…
Kecskemét
This space in the art nouveau Ornamental Palace holds exhibitions on ethnography, history and archaeology.
Szeged
On the west side of the Széchenyi tér is the neobaroque town hall, built in 1883, with its bizarre, top-heavy tower and colourful tiled roof.
Kecskemét
Now a music school, the Calvinist New College was built in 1912 in the late Hungarian Romantic style and looks like a Transylvanian castle.
Great Plain
The Round Theatre has a small exhibit on Hortobágy traditional crafts and a gift shop.
Szeged
After the 1879 flood claimed many of the walls of Szeged’s riverfront castle built around 1240, the city demolished the rest. Behind the Ferenc Móra…
