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SOUTHERN TRANSDANUBIA - SZEKSZÁRD

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
Szekszárd

Statue of the poet Mihály Babits
Statue of the poet Mihály Babits