This is ancient city bearing white, the colour of the Chiefs, in its name (Capital White Castle or Alba Regia in Latin). Founded in 972, it was the first seat of the Hungarian kings. Here stood the main church of the country for 500 years, where 37 kings and 39 queens were crowned and 15 monarchs were buried.
The Holy Crown and the State Archives were kept and national assemblies had their sessions here. The memorabilia in the Town Hall Square witnesses the outstanding role of the city in the Middle Ages. The orb and the Franciscan church built on the site of King St. Stephen's palace, where the frescos refer to the life of Prince St. Imre, who passed away at an early age. The collection of the Museum of Ecclesiastic Art is exhibited in the Franciscan Monastery. The early 18th century Town Hall, with its splendid wrought-iron balcony, is the best example of the Zopf style in the country. Valuable books are preserved in the library of the Bishops Palace. St. Stephen's Basilica was the most important building in Hungary in the 11-16th centuries. The Turks blew up coronation church in 1602, and today only its foundations can be seen in the national memorial place that is one of the most important groups of monuments in Hungary (medieval garden of ruins, Koronazo Square). King St. Stephen's (1000-1038) sarcophagus stands here in the mausoleum decorated with a historical fresco. The usury keeps the mortal remains of the Hungarian kings who were buried here. On Duke Geza's square a castle stood as early as 970 AD and a small four arched chapel: you can see the plan of these buildings marked with white stones on the pavement. King Bela IV, who ruled in the time of the Mongol invasion in the 13th century, built the subsequent bishop's cathedral as a royal palace before he moved with his household to Buda. The cranium relic of St. Stephen is preserved in the present-day Baroque cathedral. The only surviving medieval building in the city is the net vaulted St. Anna Chapel from the 15th century. By appointment you can visit one of the most beautiful monuments of the city: the Carmelite Church and monastery (Pertofi Street). F.A Maulbertsch decorates the walls of this church with frescos. Jesuit monks carved the interior furnishing of the listed Fekete Sas (Black Eagle) Pharmacy Museum (5 Fo Street). The impressive aristocratic mansion and private houses of the city that became a bishopric in 1777 are in the Baroque style. The first Hungarian-language Theatre functioned in the Gyori House (15 Kossuth Lajos Street).
Miklos Ybl (1814-1891). The flower clock (Fo Street), always composed of flowers of the season, is an interesting object. In the open-air rural museum that received the Europa Nostra Award for saving folk monuments (Palotavaros, 11 Rac Street), you can see 12-peasant house and one Serbian church with a splendid iconostasis.
In the Csok Gallery (1 Bartok Bela Square) and Deak Gallery (10 Oskola Street) works of Hungarian fine arts of the 20th century are exhibited. The puppet collection in the Fehervar Puppet House (17/a Megyehaz Street) is particularly interesting, and the Erzsebet Schaar collection (11 Jokai Street) depicts the life's work of that sculptress (1908-1975), who had an extremely individual style. The City History Museum (17 Megyehaz Street) holds local history memorabilia and the New Hungarian Gallery.
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