In Tolna
County, the one-time vicar of Szekszárd, Mór
Wosinszky, laid out the foundations of the archaeological
collection which was housed in 1902 in a neo-Renaissance
mansion at Szekszárd. It now bears the name of the
founder and is the museum centre of the town.
In the Mihály
Babits Memorial House, where the great 20th-century
poet was born, relics of the literary history connected with
the town are on display. The County Hall gives home to the
Ferenc Liszt Memorial Exhibition and a collection of Eszter
Matthioni's paintings and painted stones. The old railway
station of Paks has been turned into a railway museum. In
the Paks Gallery visitors can see a survey of the present
years of modern art. Castle museums have been furnished out
at Dunaföldvár,
Simontornya and Ozora. The Völgység Museum at
Bonyhád houses a collection of local history.
Ethnographic and historical collections are on display in
fine examples of local architecture at Györköny,
Kölesd, Pélfa, Decs, Sióagárd,
Szakály.
Seven hills with vineyards producing
historic, fiery wines encircle the atmospheric town of
Szekszárd, where Ferenc Liszt composed some of his
famous pieces of music. The piano and bust of the world-famous Hungarianborn
composer and accomplished pianist are on display at the Liszt Ferenc Memorial
Exhibition housed on the upper floor of the old Town Hall. The birth place
of the poet and literary translator, Mihály Babits, is now a museum
dedicated to his memory. The Baroque church of St. Ladislaus, standing at Béla
tér, the centre of the town in the Middle Ages, is Europe's largest
single-naved church. One of Hungary's finest Classicist town halls, with the
surviving remains of the church of an 11th-century Benedictine abbey also stands
here. The local history and archaeological exhibition at the Mór Wosinsky
County Museum details the history of the town and its surroundings. The House
of Arts at the former synagogue stages temporary exhibitions. Szekszárd
is also home to the Deutsche Bühne Ungarn, Hungary's only German-language
theatre.
The bunch of grapes in the town's coat of arms symbolises the
importance of the Szekszárd
wine-growing region, famous
for its red wines. A version of the coat of arms in
an unusual and shape can be seen on top of Kálvária
(Calvary) Hill, from where you get a picturesque panoramic
view of the region.
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Szekszárd

Statue of the poet Mihály Babits
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