Things to do & places to visit in Southern Great Plain, Hungary

Southern Great Plain #6 destination in Hungary 2023. The average rating score is 4.42 based on 3.893 traveler reviews, of 137 attractions. Timezone: Europe/Budapest, current date and time: Friday, May 10, 2024, 4:26.

Top things to do (28)

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5.0 Gyula Almásy Castle (185 reviews)
- Gem!
Spent More than 3 hours Speciality Museums • Castles • History Museums

Nice facade and park around the castle. IT is worh visiting! Entrance fee is 2500ft per person and, if you want, you can add 700ft for audio guide. But, honestly, there is no reason for that. Mostly everthing is wrriten in english. From room to room, there is very detail description of purpose and everyday life of the castle citizens. See more..
5.0 Bugac Puszta (23 reviews)
- Turan - Hun Kurultaj
Temporarily closed - Closed until further notice Spent 2-3 hours Farms

Kurultaj is a kind of festival. Central asian origin people and historians attend every year. Many visitors, they ethnic origin Hungarian, Turks, Mongolians, Khazaks, Turkmens, Khırgız, Korean, Bulgarian, Azarbaijan, Yakut, Baskurt, Uygur, Shekels, Muslim, Shaman and Christians and other etnics from all around the world. this is my third visit and i liked it so much. This year i bring my family. I have been also 2016 and 2018. Kurultaj have better events even numers years. It means it will be very good in 2020. It was too much fun, show, history, etnic musics and Shaman study you can see. You can buy traditional clothes, guns, foods in the festival area. Also nice Hungarian and Turkish foods and drinks available for eat. All prices are fair enough. During the Kurultaj period, you can stay in the big tenth they call name Yurt as a hotel. Very safe area. Horse and war shows are very nice and interesting to see them. Around 500.000 people visits kurultaj everywar. Enjoy it. See more..
5.0 Nádi Boldogasszony Plébánia (22 reviews)
- Nice church
Spent < 1 hour Religious Sites • Churches & Cathedrals

Never been inside before. Very nice church with some old fresco. Worth to visit if you are passing it. See more..
5.0 Kapus-híd (20 reviews)
- funny looking bridge
Spent < 1 hour Bridges

I think its worth to check this bridge because it is definitely not a common looking one. Plus it is in the center so easy to go across on it. See more..
5.0 Koros Torok Sandy Beach (19 reviews)
- Best sandy beach in Hungary
Beaches

Big sandy beach at the meetpoint of Rivers Tisza and Körös. In daytime you can enjoy the seaside-style hot sand (about three football fields size), and the water of Tisza River. http://www.csongrad.hu/page/pictures/koros_torok.jpg http://www.csongrad.hu/tourinform/0_1000/tesik_attila/koros_torok.jpg Food and drink prices are lower than those at Lake Balaton. Entry is free, but you have to pay for parking your car. But if you undertake a short walk, you can save enven that. In the evening it is young people's disco and party place. See more..
5.0 Bozso Gyujtemeny (18 reviews)
- Stunning!
Spent 1-2 hours Speciality Museums

Visiting the Bozso Collection was my highlight in Kecskemet! We received a guided tour and we enjoyed so much! A MUST TO SEE IN KECSKEMET! See more..
4.5 Napfenyfurdo Aquapolis (381 reviews)
- Crazy waterslides
Friday: 10:00 AM - 9:00 PM Amusement & Theme Parks

Really great indoor waterpark. We had just come from the famous indoor waterslide and thermal baths at Erding Munich, and this was so much better. No queues, and the Anaconda Kamikaze was the craziest waterside I've ever been on - and that includes waterslides with free falls and 360 loops. So worth it if you are in Hungary in winter. Hotel Forras was a great hotel too, and Szeged was beautiful See more..
4.5 Dom Square (256 reviews)
- The most recognized place in the city
Points of Interest & Landmarks

The square with exactly the same area as the Saint Mark Square in Venice (12,000 m2), bordered by elegant, northern European style buildings, was designed by Béla Rerrich and built between 1928 and 1930. On the eastern and southern side there are university institutes, while the western side is lined by the buildings of the bishop’s palace and the college of theology. The National Pantheon, placed under the arcades, includes over a hundred statues representing the prominent characters of Hungarian history, sciences and arts. The Open Air Festival was first held in front of the Votive Church in 1931. In the past decades after the first, religious themed performance, an abundance of theatrical shows have been amusing the audience in the largest “star-roof theatre” in the country. See more..
4.5 Szeged Zoo (241 reviews)
- Nice Zoo!
Zoos

Easy to find and nice to visit when in Szeged. Very nice zoo, there were not many people in zoo, and we had a great time and saw almost every animal from the zoo There is a small free "parking" on the gravel in front. Entrance price is 8.5 EUR or 9.2 USD (3100 HUF) for 1 adult and for 2100 HUF for 1 child. You can see a lot of interesting animals, and buy souvenirs from the machines or feed the animals from the proper food machines that is specially for that specific animal. When visiting in winter time be sure to wear warm clothes, because it can be very cold. We liked it very much. See more..
4.5 Gyula Castle (236 reviews)
- Refreshing and realxing
Speciality Museums • Castles

In small town Gyula, there are fortification remains with fortress and castle. In between there is lot of parking spaces (don't forget to pay parking EVERY day from 08 to 18 - 250ft per hour). In the pictures below you can see ticket prices for fortress. We entered the castle - 2500ft per person for permanent exibition. If you want an audio guide, 700ft more. Coffee in the caffee is 590ft. The castle is a bit messy but nice. It shows how do they live in really detailed an interesting way. See more..
4.5 Hagymatikum Thermal Bath (183 reviews)
- dream bath
Spas

In january 2012, our bath was extended with an organic bath building complex - which is unique in Europe, with the use of tender fund, by the designs of the Kossuth-prize winner architect, Imre Makovecz. So the indoor and the outdoor training pools, and the amusement pool are now extended with complex medical, wellness and family sections. Our guests longing for relaxation, regeneration, and wellness experiences, can chill out in a church-like beautiful amusement pool area, meanwhile they can admire the center-positioned, 10 meters high orcanic pillar, designed by Imre Makovecz, which is also the ornament of the area. See more..
4.5 Votive Church (162 reviews)
- Very nice paintings
Friday: 6:30 AM - 7:00 PM Spent 1-2 hours Religious Sites • Churches & Cathedrals

Very nice paintings, within a great church. It is free to visit when open, but you might happen to "run into" some event when it might be not possible (or limited). When there, I highly recommend to go into the visitor center (which has entrance fees), but there you'll get access to get to the tower, visit the cellar floor with an exhibition and some chapelles, and get to know the history of not only the church, but the great flood of Szeged. See more..
4.5 Szeged Synagogue (152 reviews)
- Not in fact open
Friday: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Religious Sites

This is a wonderful synagogue. I last saw the inside of it more than 30 years ago. 10.00 Sunday morning I waited outside, along with about eight others. It was supposed to be open but no one came. Very disappointed and no time to try again later. See more..
4.5 Karász utca (109 reviews)
- Clean and shiny
Points of Interest & Landmarks

Szeged's main pedestrian street with many architectural masterpieces (for example: Kis Dávid Palota, Eisenstadter House, Várnay House), which can only be walked on foot. At the entrance from Széchenyi Square, stands a bronze pair of people dressed in a Renaissance carnival costume, welcoming the walkers to the pedestrian street. Perfect for strolling, people watching and window-shopping. See more..
4.5 Kecskemét Town Hall (91 reviews)
- Beautyful Architecture, Beautiful to look at.
Architectural Buildings • Government Buildings

If you ever drop by Kecskemét, make sure to bring your zoom-lens camera with you to view this magnificence building. Although there is so much fine detail to be seen and appreciated, even from afar, you need to be as close as possible to this building to really see the ornate features of the rooftop, top walls, the bells and so on. The are other, equally magnificent, buildings to be seen in the town square as well as weird and wonderful sculptures. The Centrum Fagylatt ice cream parlour is also a must see, must taste! See more..
4.5 Szarvas Botanical Garden (73 reviews)
- Beautiful garden, enjoyable walk
Gardens

The Arboretum of Szarvas is on the outskirts of town Szarvas along the biggest horseshoe lake of river Harmas-Koros, where the weather is very extreme. Its area is 82 hectares and it consists of five collections of arboraceous plants. Among these collections the oldest and most valuable one is the romantic landscape garden on 42 hectares, which was established by the count Pal Bolza (1861-1947) See more..
4.5 Mini Magyarorszag (65 reviews)
- A unique attraction in Hungary
Friday: 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM Points of Interest & Landmarks

The newest model park, 'Mini Magyarorszag' is situated in Szarvas, in the middle of historical Hungary. In the only model park of Hungary you can wander through the whole country within several hours, and see the well-detailed models of Hungary's most beautiful and emblematic buildings. The park is surrounded by Arboretum of Szarvas, which is a very beautiful natural place. See more..
4.5 Botanical Garden of the University of Szeged (64 reviews)
- Very well organised and kept - Don't forget to check the building with the butterflies!
Spent 1-2 hours Gardens

Not in the city center, but accessible with car (plenty of parking spots at the entrance) and by public transport as well, this became one of the "must visit" of Szeged. Very well kept, well organised, plenty of maps along the road (but you get one at the entrance too) with lots of different type of plants and trees. We find especially nice the lotus garden, tha japanese garden, the rose garden and the tropcial greenhouse. Once there, do not forget to visit the tropcial butterflies building, which is behind the tropcial plants building (get around the tropical building, before the lotus lake and you'll be there). There you will get the experience of being surrounded with the many different, colorful butterfly. See more..
4.5 REÖK - Regional Art Centre (63 reviews)
- Beautiful to look at, but with a tour guide you get a better history of the building.
Speciality Museums

Reok Palace is the masterpiece of Ede Magyar. The palace was once a mansion for a wealthy water engineer (Istvan Reok) whereby Ede Magyar designed the palace around a water theme. The grand palace had a staircase made out of wrought iron with golden flowers, which is what the whole tour seems to be about these days. However, if you actually take a tour with a tour guide from the official tourist board you get a much better idea of its history and the subtle designs embedded within its brickwork. See more..
4.5 Széchenyi Square (46 reviews)
- Beautiful
Parks • Gardens

The western walls of the castle built on the bank of the River Tisza in the 13th century were situated in the present Széchenyi Square,while the barren field in front of them served as a main market square and as a practice area for the soldiers defending the castle.Following the Turkish occupation,when Szeged regained its former rights and rank of a free royal city,the City Hall,the administrative centre was built here too.The 19th century reshaped the square both in appearance and function:on the southern side majestic palces were built,then during the reconstruction following the Great Flood of 1879,the castle walls were pulled down.In place of them, ,eclectic style residential and public buildings were erected and parks were created.The square,covering more than 50000m2,is lined by ancient plane trees,magnolia flowers,empress trees and many other unique plants.Among them nicely made statues make us remember some of the influential figures in the history of the city,country. See more..
4.5 Kossuth Square (41 reviews)
- Worth to visit
Points of Interest & Landmarks

Been there on Monday evening. Place was crowd because of Wine Festival. There was a lot of stands selling Wine, beer and Palinka. Great experience. See more..
4.5 Water Tower (41 reviews)
- The nicest in Szeged
Friday: Spent < 1 hour Points of Interest & Landmarks • Observation Decks & Towers

The nicest water tower of Szeged with some grat architecture. It can be also visited on given time periods. Also wort to take some pictures of during the night or to get there in the morning and have a breakfast at the cafe on the corner of the square and just enjoy the view. See more..
4.5 Anna Spring (41 reviews)
- Wonderful Hot Pools and Sauna In The Heart of Szeged
Hot Springs & Geysers

Yesterday,I spent a delightful evening enjoying this urban spa.For 950 Forints,I enjoyed uts sauna,variety of hot pools,and fine interior architecture.This spa was open until 8 PM when I visited it.The staff at this spa were very kind and helpful and some members spoke and understood English well(The signs inside are in Hungarian of course). See more..
4.5 Assumption Cathedral (35 reviews)
- Stunning cathedral
Churches & Cathedrals

We visited this stunning cathedral during our Viking river cruise. A visit to Kalocsa was one of the tours we embarked upon and what a stunning structure it turned out to be. It is impressive both externally as well internally. The interior has been formed in the Italian Baroque style with lots of gold features. During our visit, we were treated to an organ recital which made the cathedral even more atmospheric. It has, apparently, been rebuilt several times and adjacent to the right-hand side some archaeological excavations were being undertaken to expose the original foundations. This Archbishops Palace across the square is similarly imposing with its yellow walls. See more..
4.5 Cifrapalota (28 reviews)
- Cifrapalota
Art Museums

Although didn't see the inside, I have to admit that from the outside Cifrapalota looks wonderful! The details of the building are phenomenal, I enjoyed it very much. See more..
4.5 Erkel Ferenc Emlekhaz (26 reviews)
- Famous place in a small town
Speciality Museums

The building has got 2 parts, the renewed house and the modern museum. Everything is well positioned. They have audio guide in English too. As a local citizen I am very proud of it. See more..
4.5 Gyulavari Castle (26 reviews)
- Worth visiting
Castles

A nice place to go with children. Inside a couple of exhibition and a tower to climb and to see the surrounding. See more..
4.5 Klauzal Square (25 reviews)
- Heart of the city
Spent < 1 hour Scenic Walking Areas

The value preserving reconstruction of Kárász Street and Klauzál Square was granted with the Europe Nostra Award in 2004. The downtown palaces display the features of the different competing styles of the time, classicism, eclecticism and Art Nouveau. Their versatile, distinctive nature still creates a uniquely harmonic, well-balanced picture. While having a coffee, a cake or an ice-cream, we can have a look at the full-sized bronze statue of Lajos Kossuth, who made his last speech in Hungary from the balcony of the Kárász House, located on the other side of the square. On the eastern side of the square the harmonic building of the former Hotel Europe can be found as well as the New Zsótér House, which was built on the outer piles of the old castle, and where the operations of the reconstruction were directed from. See more..
4.5 City Hall (24 reviews)
- Gem on the Széchenyi Square
Friday: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM Spent 1-2 hours Architectural Buildings • Civic Centres • Government Buildings

The present City Hall is the 3rd building in the same place with the same function. The 1st building of a modest design was erected in 1728.It was followed by the second one with the same area as the present hall,designed by István Vedres at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.After the flood devastating almost the entire city(1879),the square was filled up,so the building became too low and awkward.Ödön Lechner and Gyula Pártos designed another floor and a slender central tower on the original foundation. The neo-baroque City Hall was inaugurated by Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1883,the middle window of the staircase is decorated with his renowned saying:"Szeged will be more beautiful than it used to be".The phoenix in the middle of the pediment symbolizes the revival os Szeged.The Bridge of Sighs,originally built for the Emperor and his escort visiting the reconstructed city.In the court with a unique atmosphere theatrical and musical performances await the audience each summer. See more..
4.5 Szent Andras Brewery (21 reviews)
- Excellent selection of craft beer
Spent < 1 hour Breweries

Located in the quiet village of Békésszentandrás, beer aficionados can find a hidden gem. One of the best sources of craft beer in Hungary, the brewery offers a nice selection, including traditional types as well as some more exotic ones such as fruit beer. Pay a visit if you're around, highly recommended. See more..