Heves megyei aprónyomtatványok 21/E

1. Let's start our walk in Eszterházy Square. Here we’ll find the one and only neoclassic-stylcd building in the town: the Eger Cathedral (or Basilica), which is the second biggest church in Hungary. In the summer you can listen to a remarkable organ concert here every day. (see: Garanteed programmes).

3. Opposite the Basilica, the Liccum. one of the most impressive buildings of the city can be found, which was hunt in late-Baroque style by Count Károly Eszterházy. The Líceum was intended as a university, but the empress, Maria Theresa, decided that Eger should not be given university rank, and classed Eger as a Liccum, a Grade 3 institution. Today it is a Tbachers’Thiining College.

On the first floor of the building you’ll find the famous dioccsant library. Several medieval codices, manuscripts and the only Mozart-letter can be found in Hungary arc in the collection.

In the 53 m high tower of the building the Observatory Museum and the "Specula" Periscope are also unique.

2. If you arc standing opposite the Basilica, on the right side you'll find the Archbishop’s Palace, whiek has been the residency of the Archbishop of Eger since 1804. In the northern wing of the building the Archiepiscopal Collection Centre (tnc most beautiful and valuable masterpieces of the treasury of the archbishopric) can be found.

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4. Let’s continue our walk on Kossuth Street. Which is full of fine 18th-c. buildings. You should note the beautiful wrought iron decoration on the front of the buildings. The most important buildings are: Provost Minor’s Palace. Franciscan Church, Provost Major’s Palace