Top Things to do in Mohacs
What to do and see in Mohacs, Hungary: The Best Places and Tips
Mohacs in Hungary, from Europe region, is best know for Specialty Museums. Discover best things to do in Mohacs with beautiful photos and great reviews from traveller around the world here!
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1. Busoudvar
Overall Ratings
5 based on 15 reviews
Reviewed By tim4travel88 - Lismore, Australia
I visited this excellent museum after seeing a TV program about the Buso festival in February each year, where scary masked & suited "Buso" parade through the town making lots of noise to frighten winter away. This modern museum is only three years old & has a wonderful collection of costumes, some dating back over 100 years. It also has representations of family life from olden times, with a view into a family's kitchen.
The culmination of the festival is the firing of canons & the burning of a huge wood pile.
These are faithfully recreated with a great sound & light show including very realistic smoke & flames coming from the canon & wooden fire pile. The museum complex includes a coffee shop, ceramics shop, & an excellent gift shop.
I highly recommend a visit to this great little museum, which is an easy 7 minute walk from the riverfront.
2. Historical Memorial Park of Mohacs
Overall Ratings
4 based on 24 reviews
Reviewed By Alan1fromOz - Narooma, Australia
Knowing little of the history of Hungary apart from WW2 and then the tragic 1956 uprising against the USSR, I have discovered that invasion has been a constant for them over many centuries. This atmospheric park remembers their darkest day in 1526 when the army of Suleiman 1 over-ran the Hungarian forces; a defeat which led to 150 years of Turkish oppression.
Seeing through this monument how raw this event is still in the national psyche gives an insight into Hungary's present strong opposition to the new Islamic invasion of Europe.
3. The Statue of the Three Nationalities
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 6 reviews
Reviewed By ELear - Ancona, Italy
In front of the town hall and the church, at the centre of civic and religious life, there is a statue embodying what the town believes in. It shows three women standing together, one Hungarian, one German, one Sokác (a sort of Serbian), dressed in their national dresses, with words underneath in each of their three languages. The words mean: 'Let us hold hands here. Come ! Let each one believe her own mother the most beautiful. There are a thousand languages, but only one language of the heart lives in us'.
4. Votive Memorial Church
Overall Ratings
4 based on 7 reviews
Reviewed By ELear - Ancona, Italy
The church is in the centre of town, in the same square as the town hall. It's remarkable not for its age, because it isn't very old, but for the extraordinary harmony of the sacred space inside, and the loveliness of the modern stained glass. It's a Catholic church, but it recalls round, domed orthodox churches such as Hagia Sofia or Alexander Nevsky in Sofia (smaller than both of those, of course), which is absolutely appropriate for multi-faith, multi-ethnic Mohacs.
5. The Statue of Miklos Radnoti
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 4 reviews
Reviewed By ELear - Ancona, Italy
In the beautiful Hosok Memorial Park, four or five hundred yards from the Danube, there stands a bronze statue of a young man, wearing an overcoat and heavy, old-fashioned workman's boots, leaning on a length of fence. The man is Miklós Radnóti, and the statue was my main reason for coming to Mohacs.
Miklós Radnóti was a twentieth century Hungarian poet. Towards the end of the second world war he was one of a group of Jews who were marched through Mohacs on the way to a labour camp in the far north. Ill and weak, he couldn't keep up with the rest, so a militiaman shot him.
After the war the body was exhumed. In his overcoat was found a stained notebook with copies of poems and fragments of poems he had been composing before he died. One of the very last had been written on the way through Mohacs.
This statue moved me than anything in Budapest.
There are other monuments too - to the people from Mohacs who lost their lives in the first world war, to those who died in the 1956 revolution... A very pleasant place, with well-kept green lawns, tall trees, and a toddlers' play area with a see-saw.
6. Kossuth Cinema Gallery
Overall Ratings
4 based on 1 reviews
Reviewed By ELear - Ancona, Italy
The gallery consists of a number of rooms above the Kossuth cinema, which is behind the Hosok Memorial Park and not far from the central bus station. Easy to find.
The permanent exhibition features a collection of Busó masks, as worn in the Mohacs Busójárás festival (there is another museum in the town about the Buso festival alone, though), a room of the strange Mohacs black pottery, one with the traditional costumes of local peoples, and many beautiful, almost Japanese paintings by Mihály Kolbe.
There are also regular temporary Exhibitions. When I went there was one of promising young local painters, including some very impressive work by one Kalkan Dora.
7. Inner City Parish Church
Overall Ratings
3 based on 1 reviews
Reviewed By KatielouAustralia - Hobart, Australia
The church is central to village life in the Hungarian town of Mohacs. This orthodox church also has a statue of St John nearby within the village.
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