Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Esztergom, Hungary
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2.5 km
126 m
Explore Esztergom in Hungary with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Sight 1: Water Mill Bastion
The Mill Bastion, Primate Machine Factory or Petz Factory are located in Berényi Zsigmond Street in the Water Town of Esztergom, next to the Haji Ibrahim mosque of Özicsel. Industrial historical monument.
Sight 2: Christian Museum
The Christian Museum is the largest ecclesiastical collection in Hungary; it conserves European and Hungarian works of art from the period between the 13th and 19th centuries.
Wikipedia: Christian Museum, Esztergom (EN), Website, Facebook
Sight 3: Bálint Balassa Museum
The Bálint Balassa Museum of MNM is located in Esztergom, the National Museum is a museum institution classified as a regional museum.
Sight 4: Mattyasovszky Bastion
The Mattyasovszky or Conquered Bastion of Hévíz is the southernmost section of the medieval defensive system of Esztergom-Watertown, a significant corner bastion. It is located on the Little Danube Promenade and József Attila Square. As part of the watertown fortification system, it is protected as a monument and is an archaeological area.
Sight 5: SOLVA
The Pannonian Limes is part of the old Roman fortified frontier known as the Danubian Limes that runs for approximately 420 km (260 mi) from the Roman camp of Klosterneuburg in the Vienna Basin in Austria to the castrum in Singidunum (Belgrade) in present-day Serbia. The garrisons of these camps protected the Pannonian provinces against attacks from the north from the time of Augustus (31 BC–14 AD) to the beginning of the 5th century. In places this section of the Roman limes also crossed the river into the territory of the barbarians (Barbaricum).
Sight 6: Primatial Basilica of the Blessed Virgin Mary Assumed Into Heaven and St Adalbert
The Primatial Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Adalbert, also known as the Esztergom Basilica, is an ecclesiastic basilica in Esztergom, Hungary, the mother church of the Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest, and the seat of the Catholic Church in Hungary. It is dedicated to the Assumption of Saint Mary and Saint Adalbert.
Sight 7: Chapel of Saint Thomas Becket
The Roman Catholic St. Thomas Chapel of St. Thomas Becket stands in the Szenttamás district of Esztergom, on top of St. Thomas Hill, where the Baroque-style Calvary leads.
Wikipedia: Becket Szent Tamás-kápolna (HU), Url, Url Miserend
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