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INTRODUZIONE A EGER

e la citta` nel Ungheria settentrionale, la sede di Heves. E` famoso per il suo castello, bagni termali, edifici storici e vini rossi e bianci.

COME ARRIVARE

Se Lei viaggera` con il treno il Suo giro prende 2 ore direttamente da Budapest. Ogni giorni ci sono 16 treni partiti da Stazione Keleti a Budapest. Se Lei va in macchina da Budapest, prenda M3 autostrada all´ovest a Kerecsend, dove Lei prendera` Autostrada 25 al nord per Eger.

COSA DA VEDERE

Eger Castle

Is located in the oldest and most famous part of Eger. There are several museums in the castle:

Dobó István Vármúzeum - shows the history of the castle
Egri Képtár – there is a painting exhibition
Kazamaták – this is a system of cellars under the castle
A világ fegyverei – presents a weapon exhibition
Panoptikum – this is a wax museum

and several periodic exhibitions. For more information about the exhibitions please visit the Istvan Dobo castle museum website.

Catholic Museum

Address: 3300 Eger, Széchenyi u. 1.
Tel: +36 36/421-332

Opening hours:
1st Nov-31st March: Mon – Fri: 8.00-16.00
1st April-31st Oct: Tue-Sat: 9.00-17.00

Permanent exhibition:
Those liturgical objects that can be seen in the museum are in the private collection of the Archbishopric and the Chapter. There are several paintings, statues and liturgical books in the collection.

Library of the Bishopric in the Lyceum

Address: 3300 Eger, 1. Eszterházy square
Tel: +36 36/520-400

The building was built to be a four-faculty university: jurisprudence, medical science, theology and philosophy. In order to serve these faculties he created the collection of the library and, according to his words, the idea of creating a university (univeritas) in Eger which could have made the town the centre of science and knowledge, failed because of the absolutist power of kaiserism. The collection consists of 20,293 books concerning the sciences mentioned above. These books were the best available concerning these sciences in the 16th, 17th, 18th centuries. In this way it can be considered as a truly historical scientific collection. The books were mostly written in Latin but there are lots of books in Hungarian and French. In the Eszterházy collection there are books written in thirty languages. There are 34 codices from the Middle Ages and 94 old manuscripts. Today the collection counts 135000 theological, philosophical and sociological books.

Historical Treasury

Address: 3300. Eger, Dobó u. 9.
Tel./Fax: +36 36 321-715

Opening hours:
The museum is closed on Mondays. Tue-Sun - 09.00-17.00

Admission:
Students and retired 250,- HUF; Adults: 400.- HUF

This is a museum with very special atmosphere. Here you can see the private collection of Sándor Tóth, weapons from ancient times up to the War of Independence. Firearms, sabres, swords and other equipments. These are shown in 20 cabinets on 235 square metres.

The György Kepes Visual Centre (Vitkovics House)

Address: 3300 Eger, Széchenyi u. 55.
Tel: +36 36/412-023

Opening hours:
3rd Jan-22th Dec: Mon-Sat: 10.00-16.00

In the house you can see the room of Mihály Vitkovics who was a poet and a interpreter. This house is home of the permanent exhibition of artist György Kepes. There are his works as paintings, drawings, plans, sketches and photos. Here we can see the plans of his huge art projects, photo documents, documentary evidence of his years as a teacher, plans and documents of his kinetic works.

Other sights

Cathedral or basilica
Minaret
Dobó square with Baroque Minorite Church and the Palóc Museum
The Lyceum – Eszterházy College
Turskish Bath
The Provost Minor´s Palace
Agria Park
Archbishop´s Palace and Garden
The Fazola gate
The Cistercian Church
Telekessy Pharmacy Musem
Fire Station Museum

Wine

Beside its historic sights and its thermal baths, Eger is famous for its wines. It produces both red and white wines of high quality Eger Wine region. There are the most famous wines Egri Leányka, Egerszóláti Olaszrizling, Debröi Hárslevelű, Egri Bikavér, Chardonay, Pinot noir.

Szépasszonyvölgy ("The Valley of the Beautiful Woman") is located on the southern edge of Eger. There are wine cellars, each with their own wine bar catering to tourists.

COSA DA FARE

The thermal bath of Eger

Eger is a world famous city for its curative thermal water. All seven pools are filled with water of nearby hot springs. The Thermal Bath of Eger is situated next to Turkish Spa, in a 0.5 square kilometer area. In some of the pools the guests can bath in one of several thermal spring's water. One of the pools contains a 28 °C lightly radio active water, other has a 47 °C hot thermal water containing sulphur and calcium-hydrocarbon.

Turkish Spa

The Turkish had been built originally as a ritual cleaning bath. But with its favorable effects is available for the health. The main pool is octagonal like all other Turkish baths. For those who take a bath, the spring-water has a very pleasant 31°C. There are four other pools, one of them is the small ”Mirror-pool”, the other is the weight-pool, and two warm water pools. Ionizing effets of the water helps the cell regeneration.

Medical recommendations:

Articular inflammations
Degenerative articular diseases
Vertebral pain-syndromes
Kinetic problems based on metabolic diseases
Recreation - After the bath the one should feel better, should be in a wellnes stage.

The Aladar Bitskey Swimming Pool

Opening hours:
Monday-Friday: 6:00-21:00
Saturday-Sunday: 8:00-18:00

Aladar Bitskey was Eger's world famous swimmer, Hungarian Champion and European Championship medallist. The building has a 16 x 8.5 m pool, a 20 person sauna, and an 8 person jacuzzi. Other services in the swimming pool includes a buffet, a hair dresser, cosmetics and massage.