Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
The best times to visit the church (if you want to avoid services) are between 10am and
3pm and 3pm and 5.30pm Wednesday to Saturday.
MUSEUM
PETŐFI MUSEUM OF LITERATURE
300Ft, plus temporary exhibitions 200/100Ft; 10am-6pm Tue-Sun; 15, 115, M3/4 Kálvin tér)
Just north of Egyetem tér and housed in the sumptuous neoclassical
Károly Palace
(Károlyi
Palota), dating from 1840, this museum is devoted to Sándor Petőfi and has great examples
of period furniture and dress. Temporary exhibitions explore other Hungarian poets such as
Endre Ady, Mór Jókai and Attila József. Also here is a centre for contemporary literature, a
library, a concert/lecture hall and a terrace restaurant in the courtyard.
SQUARE
EGYETEM TÉR
Recently repaved and boasting new lighting, seating, water features and shade sails,
'University Sq' takes its name from the branch of the prestigious
Loránd Eötvös Science
university building to the west is the lovely baroque 1742
University Church
(Egyetemi tem-
Over the altar is a copy of the Black Madonna of Czȩstochowa so revered in Poland. The
building north of the square with the multicoloured dome is the
University Library
