Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Miskolc, Hungary
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0.9 km
101 m
Explore Miskolc 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.
Individual Sights in MiskolcSight 1: Avasi kilátó
Miskolc-Avas TV Tower is a 72-metre (236 ft) tall television tower with an observation deck on the Avas hill in Miskolc, Hungary. The Avas TV Tower was designed by Miklós Hófer and György Vörös, and was built in 1966 in place of a wooden lookout tower. It is commonly regarded as the symbol of the city, even though in the 1990s the bell tower of the Avas church was declared the city's symbol in its place.
Sight 2: Palóczy-obeliszk
László Palóczy was a Hungarian politician, who served as acting Speaker of the House of Representatives as oldest member of the lower house in 1849.
Sight 3: Szemere Bertalan-obeliszk
Bertalan Szemere was a Hungarian poet and nationalist who became the third Prime Minister of Hungary during the short period of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 when Hungary was independent of rule by the Austrian Empire.
Sight 4: Horváth Lajos-obeliszk
Lajos Székudvari Horváth is a lawyer, politician, Grand Order, honorary citizen of Miskolc.
Sight 5: Avasi Református Templom
The Gothic Protestant Church of Avas is the oldest building in the centre of the city of Miskolc in Northern Hungary. It was built in the 13th century as a small, Romanesque style church, and later it was expanded to a larger Gothic style church. In 1544, during the Ottoman occupation of Hungary the Turks set the church on fire. Because it was already a Protestant church, the Catholic owner of the Diósgyőr estate, Borbála Fánchy, didn't give her permission to use the wood from the nearby forests to rebuild the church, and it was rebuilt only more than twenty years later.
Wikipedia: Gothic Protestant Church of Avas (EN), Website, Url, Facebook
Sight 6: Herman Ottó
Ottó Herman was a Hungarian zoologist, ethnographer, archaeologist, and politician. A polymath recognized as a pioneer of Hungarian natural history research, he made numerous studies on Hungarian spiders, birds, and fishes, and founded the journal Natural History Notebooks and the ornithological journal Aquila. He is called "the Father of the birds" in Hungary. A member of several learned societies including the Royal Hungarian Society of Natural History, Hungarian Linguistics Society, Hungarian Society of Ethnography, he was elected to the Hungarian Parliament. The Ottó Herman Museum of Miskolc was named after him.
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