Town with 162,300 inhabitants on the banks of the river Tisza, a prominent economic and cultural centre and university town.

University institutions, Episcopal seat and Theological Academy are housed in the surrounding buildings. The oldest monument of the town is the Domotor Tower, part of a former, 12th century church, is now used as a baptistry. On the order of the local Catholic Serbs the Serbian church was completed by 1778. The Karasz House was built in neo-classical style in 1845, from its balcony the last speech of Lajos Kossuth in Hungary was delivered on 12th July, 1849.



The Our Lady church was built in the 15th century on the site of a former church from the age of the Arpads. To the net vaulted nave a stellar vaulted chancel was added in 1503. It is one of the finest examples of mature Gothic architecture in Hungary.

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