Hungarian F1 Grand Prix

29/07/2012 | Budapest - Hungaroring

Top Things To See

Top Things To See: • Visit Budapest(website: www.budapestinfo.hu). Stroll around Buda’s cobbled streets and soak up spectacular views from the Fisherman’s Bastion. In Pest admire the HungarianParliament, Hero’s Square and Vajdahunyad Castle, or unearth the treasures at the Hungarian National Museum.

• Follow the Danube Bend to the historic market town of Szentendre (website: www.szentendre.hu). See ceramics at the Margit Kovács Museum,paintings at the Béla Czóbel Museum,historical artefacts at the Károly Ferenczy Museum andreconstructed folk villages at the Ethnographic Museum.

• Head for Hungary’s former capital and spiritual heart, Esztergom (website: www.esztergom.hu), home to Hungary’s largest basilica, the palace ruins and the Museum of the Stronghold of Esztergom.Admire one of the country’s finest art collections at the Christian Museum.

• Visit Sopron (website: www.sopron.hu), which boasts 240 listed buildings. Do not miss the Firewatch Tower, Storno House with its Roman, Celtic and Avar relics and mementos of Franz Liszt, the Gothic Goat Church or the gargoyled Church of St Michael.

• Go to see the baroque Esterházy Palace at Fertöd, designed to rival Versailles; Josef Haydn was music master here at the end of the 18th century.

• Admire the excellent Romanesque stonework at Szombathely,whichclaims to be the oldest town in Hungary (website: www.szombathely.hu).

• Explore the towns around Lake Balaton(website: www.balaton-tourism.hu). Discover Tihany’s Benedictine Abbey, its Belsô-tó Lake and the Aranyház geyser cones. Meander through Veszprém’s cobbled streets, 10km (6 miles) north of the lake, and visit Episcopal Palace and Gizella Chapel.

• Visit the vibrant university town of Szeged,an economic and cultural hub that is also home to Hungary’s finest Greek Orthodox church (website: www.szegedportal.hu).

• See the fifth-oldest university in Europe (1367) and the finest Hungarian examples of Ottoman architecture from Turkish occupancy (1543-1686) in Pécs (website: www.pecs.hu). Visit the Cathedral, the Mosque of Gazi Kasim Pasha, and the Archaeological Museum

• Head to Eger(website: www.eger.hu), one of the country’s oldest and most colourful cities, which boasts around 200 historical monuments, including its 14-sided Minaret.

• Gaze at the spectacular Sárospatak Castle, one of Hungary’s greatest historical monuments.

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