Jan. 16, 2021

Aszód (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020

We visited Aszód because we happened to pass it when heading forEger (in a few posts) and because the castle apparently was nice to see. The castle was being…

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Jan. 15, 2021

Mezőhegyes (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 4

Last part of the Mezőhegyes series. As explained in the previous post we also visited the buildings in the fields around the stud. In this one: pigsties, a silo…

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Jan. 15, 2021

Mezőhegyes (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 3

We visited the stud in the previous posts (here and here), but as I explained here, when there's too much empty space between places on the map which I want to…

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Jan. 14, 2021

Mezőhegyes (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 2

I introduced you to this stud with worldwide reknown in the previous post. Let's continue our walk over the main site and end it at the station (which…

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Jan. 13, 2021

Kiszombor (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020

You'll find Kiszombor in the Csongrád County, on the Southern Great Plains (Hungary). The village is over 800 years old and we were there to see the Rotunda, a…

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Jan. 14, 2021

Mezőhegyes (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 1

Just like Kiszombor (see previous post), Mezőhegyes is on the Southern Great Plain. It is, on the contrary to Kiszombor, however known worldwide, at least to…

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Jan. 13, 2021

Szeged (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 16

And the last post in the Szeged series. What about a few more sculptures to finish this sixteen parts visit ? A politician (Deák Ferenc), a king (Béla IV), and…

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Jan. 12, 2021

Szeged (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 15

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Jan. 12, 2021

Szeged (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 14

I mentioned a watery thing in the previous post, here's two more of them: a drinking boy and a sculpture dedicated to a phenomenon typical for the Tisza river…

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Jan. 11, 2021

Szeged (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 13

And then some more architecture. One building: city hall, on Széchenyi tér. The watery thing in front of it, is the fountain you saw here.

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Jan. 11, 2021

Szeged (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 12

Back to sculptures (I mentioned the pattern in the previous post and will not do that again :-) ). This time the one dedicated to Tisza Lajos, or Count Lajos…

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Jan. 10, 2021

Szeged (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 11

You might start noticing a pattern here: architecture, sculpture, architecture, ... and that is indeed what I chose to do for the rest of my Szeged series (five…

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Jan. 09, 2021

Szeged (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 10

We visited the monument for Kossuth Lajos in this post. Now let's visit the monument for Vásárhelyi Pál. Not the ice dancer that died in 2008 (and which does…

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Jan. 08, 2021

Szeged (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 9

And then ... there was some secular (and spectacular) architecture: Reök palota (palace), a beautiful art nouveau building. Really love those curbs and painted…

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Jan. 08, 2021

Szeged (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 8

As mentioned in part 1 of this series Szeged played an important part in the revolution of 1848. Kossuth Lajos (or Lajos Kossuth - in Hungarian family name goes…

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Jan. 07, 2021

Szeged (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 7

After cooling down a little bit in the synagogue (and getting rid of that kippah as soon as possible) we went back into town. Good thing we found a few…

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Jan. 07, 2021

Szeged (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 6

Last post about the "new" synagogue (here, here, and here are the previous posts). Some more shots from the, slightly decaying interior.

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Jan. 06, 2021

Szeged (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 5

Here's the third part (after part 1 and 2 of course) of the photo's on the "new" synagogue. More stained glass, but in the walls, not in the roof.

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Jan. 06, 2021

Szeged (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 4

I don't like wearing silly things on my head (like muzzles/masks), so wearing a kippah is certainly not something I will volunteer to do ever again, but as I…

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Jan. 05, 2021

Szeged (Magyarország/Hungary) - Summer 2020 - part 3

From a catholic church to a synagogue is not a very big step, at least not in Szeged. Especially when the latter looks so much like ... a catholic church.…

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