Veszprem
Veszprem - Description
"The Town of Queens" - that's what this town at the Sed-side is called. The country's first bishopric was established here because it was the duty of the Bishops of Veszprem to crown the Hungarian Queens.
On the 500-meter-long rock ridge of Castle Hill, nice houses create a historical atmosphere in the Castle District where a royal castle stood from the 11th to the 13th centuries.
The entrance is the Heroes' Gate, and nearby we can find the Fire Tower (Vár street 1.) with the Veszprem Pantheon on its wall. The collections of the Castle Gallery and Brick Museum can be found in the Dubniczay House (Vár street 29.). In the wonderful baroque Archbishop's Palace (Vár street 16.), the Archbishop's Archives and Library can be visited with permission.
Veszprem has many unique artefacts of Hungarian Church history: the country's oldest frescos can be found in the early-Gothic Gizella Chapel (Vár street 18.) where there is an exhibition of Church and secular history. We can also see the sacrarium and crypt of the Bishop's Cathedral - basilica minor - built by the first Hungarian Queen, Giselle of Bavaria, in 1001. The fourteenth-century Gothic Giselle relic is the gift of the city of Passau.
Saint George's Chapel, built during the 9th and 10th centuries, must have been the first church in the country. The classicist Piarist grammar school, church and monastery (Vár street 12.) was built in the 18th century. In the church we can see sacred folk relics from the 18th century.
We can find here the Provost's House (Vár street 18.), the Archbishop's Office and the Franciscan Church (Vár street 33.). The altar picture shows Saint Stephen offering the Sacred Crown to the dowager of the Hungarians.
The Hungarian nation erected a monument on the 900th anniversary of Saint Stephen's death: a statue showing Saint Stephen and Queen Giselle. It's in the castle, facing the valley, and from here a wonderful panorama opens out to the slim Saint Stephen Valley Bridge over the Sed Brook and the nearby peaks of the Bakony Hills. The bridge, built in 1938, is an important work of Hungarian engineering.
Source: Nr. 1. hungarytourism.hu
On the 500-meter-long rock ridge of Castle Hill, nice houses create a historical atmosphere in the Castle District where a royal castle stood from the 11th to the 13th centuries.
The entrance is the Heroes' Gate, and nearby we can find the Fire Tower (Vár street 1.) with the Veszprem Pantheon on its wall. The collections of the Castle Gallery and Brick Museum can be found in the Dubniczay House (Vár street 29.). In the wonderful baroque Archbishop's Palace (Vár street 16.), the Archbishop's Archives and Library can be visited with permission.
Veszprem has many unique artefacts of Hungarian Church history: the country's oldest frescos can be found in the early-Gothic Gizella Chapel (Vár street 18.) where there is an exhibition of Church and secular history. We can also see the sacrarium and crypt of the Bishop's Cathedral - basilica minor - built by the first Hungarian Queen, Giselle of Bavaria, in 1001. The fourteenth-century Gothic Giselle relic is the gift of the city of Passau.
Saint George's Chapel, built during the 9th and 10th centuries, must have been the first church in the country. The classicist Piarist grammar school, church and monastery (Vár street 12.) was built in the 18th century. In the church we can see sacred folk relics from the 18th century.
We can find here the Provost's House (Vár street 18.), the Archbishop's Office and the Franciscan Church (Vár street 33.). The altar picture shows Saint Stephen offering the Sacred Crown to the dowager of the Hungarians.
The Hungarian nation erected a monument on the 900th anniversary of Saint Stephen's death: a statue showing Saint Stephen and Queen Giselle. It's in the castle, facing the valley, and from here a wonderful panorama opens out to the slim Saint Stephen Valley Bridge over the Sed Brook and the nearby peaks of the Bakony Hills. The bridge, built in 1938, is an important work of Hungarian engineering.
Source: Nr. 1. hungarytourism.hu
Veszprem - Photo galery
Látnivalók ezen a településen: Veszprem
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Church of the Piarist Order
The tower of the building built in Classical style between 1828 and 1833 has two storeys and still this is the smallest church of the Castle.
One...
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Fire Lookout Tower
The Fire Lookout Tower is one of the symbols of the city, the view from here is fascinating.
The fundaments of the today's tower originate from the...
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Franciscan Church and Monastery
The first Franciscan monks arrived in Veszprem at the beginning of the 1680s. Their first sanctuary, a small house and chapel built on the site...
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Viaduct
Standing next to the statues at the end of the Castle, to the left we can see the St Stephan Viaduct. One of the famous symbols of Veszprém it is...
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