Győr

Baross Gábor út, a lovely cobbled pedestrian street in the heart of the Baroque city centre. There are many cafés, restaurants, boutiques, and night clubs. It can be reached from the bus and railway stations very easily about 2 minutes on foot, and there are also parking houses nearby.

The reliquary of king Ladislaus I.

Szent László hermája. The original reliquary was made for the canonization ceremony of the king, but it was destroyed in a fire. The one which is today stored in the Basicila of Győr Győri bazilika was created around the turn of the 14th and 15th century. The gold-plated silver head was rescued during the Turkish invasion and put in the cathedral in 1606.

The City Hall

A beautiful Neoclassical building across the street from the railway station. Its square was recently rebuilt in September 2008 with paving stones of Italian marble. There are also two identical baroque gardens in the square. It is best to visit City Hall at night, when everything is lit up in gold lights.

The Bishop's Palace

The Basilica of Győr

Diocesan Treasury

(http://www.gyor.egyhazmeg...).

The Carmelite Church

Benedictine Church

Synagogue

A beautiful neo-Romanesque building.

City Art Museum

(http://www.artmuz.hu/). Divided into several separate branches all of which are within the old city.

Xantus Museum

(http://www.gymsmuzeum.hu). Historical museum. A branch is dedicated to art of the 20th Century and non-European art.

Benedictine Archabbey of Pannonhalma

Pannonhalmi Főapátság. Spend a day visiting the thousand-years-old Pannonhalma which lies approximately 20 km south of Győr. It can be reached by regular buses from the Győr main autobus station within half an hour. It witnessed much of Hungarian history and recalls a number of national diets, peace treaties, a successfully beaten attack of the Tartars, domestic struggles of the Árpád dynasty, Turkish invasion, great fires and restorations. This fortress of Hungarian Benedictines, this illustrated "picture book” of European art history from Romanesque to Classicism was undoubtedly worthy of being registered as World Heritage site by UNESCO. The crypt contains the oldest parts of the church. The first catalogue of its invaluable library dates back to 1090 and today there are over 250,000 volumes in the library. The charter of the cloister from Stephen I dated 1001, and the earliest written record of the Hungarian language, the founder of the Tihany Abbey from 1055 are the most precious pride and joy of the archives.