Top Things to do in Southern Great Plain
Top 10 Free Things to do in Southern Great Plain, Southern Great Plain
Discover the best top things to do in Southern Great Plain, Hungary including Nadi Boldogasszony Plebania, Karasz utca, Votive Church, Arkad Szeged, Dom Square, Kecskemet Town Hall, Kossuth Square, Saint Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church of Szeged, City Hall, Klauzal Square.
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1. Nadi Boldogasszony Plebania
2. Karasz utca
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 107 reviews
Szeged's main pedestrian street with many architectural masterpieces (for example: Kis Dávid Palota, Eisenstadter House, Várnay House), which can only be walked on foot. At the entrance from Széchenyi Square, stands a bronze pair of people dressed in a Renaissance carnival costume, welcoming the walkers to the pedestrian street. Perfect for strolling, people watching and window-shopping.
Reviewed By utazas2015 - Eastbourne, United Kingdom
Very nice, clean high street. Especially it connects to Szechenyi square which is a nice small park location to sit down under the great ancient trees to hide from the burning sun even at the hot summer heat. Karasz street itself is full with nice terraces, bars, cafés, confectionary, restaurant, pubs.
3. Votive Church
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 159 reviews
Reviewed By Laszlo57
The Votive Church in Szeged is one of the main attractions of the town. It's placed on one end of a large square, where they have summer theater events every year (you should visit a performance is you have a chance). The church itself is not an old one, but it has an atmosphere to it. The walls are not marble covered, but the style and the paintings have some oriental touch. We have visited a mass and the feeling was not much different from that of any famous Gothic cathedrals. If you are in Szeged you should go and visit the the church.
4. Arkad Szeged
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 14 reviews
Reviewed By a1eksandar - Belgrade, Serbia
Nice shopping mall with lots of good shops, a Stabucks place and a very big covered parking which is free.
5. Dom Square
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 252 reviews
The square with exactly the same area as the Saint Mark Square in Venice (12,000 m2), bordered by elegant, northern European style buildings, was designed by Béla Rerrich and built between 1928 and 1930. On the eastern and southern side there are university institutes, while the western side is lined by the buildings of the bishop’s palace and the college of theology. The National Pantheon, placed under the arcades, includes over a hundred statues representing the prominent characters of Hungarian history, sciences and arts. The Open Air Festival was first held in front of the Votive Church in 1931. In the past decades after the first, religious themed performance, an abundance of theatrical shows have been amusing the audience in the largest “star-roof theatre” in the country.
Reviewed By V5528NFchristopherh
What a beautiful cathedral. Easily accessed and central to Szeged. We had a good look around inside and out climbed the 300 steps of the tower and visited the visitors center exhibition which was really informative and unusually the hungarian text was also in english. The square in front of the cathedral also houses the famous mechanical clock which was also quite unique and you can see the full clock movement twice a day at 12.15 and 18.45(CET). Check to make sure that it hasn't changed if you are visiting.
6. Kecskemet Town Hall
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 91 reviews
Reviewed By laczkozsu - Debrecen, Hungary
This famous building is located in the centre of the town. It has a special architecture with an interesting roof with Zsolnay- ceramics. Outside and inside of the building you can see statues and portrait of Hungarian historic people: leaders and kings. You can hear the chime every hour. We were lucky to go into the main hall where wedding ceremonies are held. We have seen the fantastic paintings on the walls.
7. Kossuth Square
8. Saint Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church of Szeged
9. City Hall
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 24 reviews
The present City Hall is the 3rd building in the same place with the same function. The 1st building of a modest design was erected in 1728.It was followed by the second one with the same area as the present hall,designed by István Vedres at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.After the flood devastating almost the entire city(1879),the square was filled up,so the building became too low and awkward.Ödön Lechner and Gyula Pártos designed another floor and a slender central tower on the original foundation. The neo-baroque City Hall was inaugurated by Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1883,the middle window of the staircase is decorated with his renowned saying:"Szeged will be more beautiful than it used to be".The phoenix in the middle of the pediment symbolizes the revival os Szeged.The Bridge of Sighs,originally built for the Emperor and his escort visiting the reconstructed city.In the court with a unique atmosphere theatrical and musical performances await the audience each summer.
10. Klauzal Square
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 24 reviews
The value preserving reconstruction of Kárász Street and Klauzál Square was granted with the Europe Nostra Award in 2004. The downtown palaces display the features of the different competing styles of the time, classicism, eclecticism and Art Nouveau. Their versatile, distinctive nature still creates a uniquely harmonic, well-balanced picture. While having a coffee, a cake or an ice-cream, we can have a look at the full-sized bronze statue of Lajos Kossuth, who made his last speech in Hungary from the balcony of the Kárász House, located on the other side of the square. On the eastern side of the square the harmonic building of the former Hotel Europe can be found as well as the New Zsótér House, which was built on the outer piles of the old castle, and where the operations of the reconstruction were directed from.
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