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Holiday weekend in Szeged

The first weekend of October we spent all together in Szeged.
With its 170000 inhabitants Szeged is one of the biggest cities in Hungary and is situated near to the triangle with Serbia and Romania on the river Tisza.
After a four hours trip by bus we arrived at the Tisza Hotel which was located in the middle of the city. We unpacked and had a really nice meal in the restaurant Véndeglö. Afterwards we spent the night in the Retro Club which was luckily connected directly to our hotel.
On saturday we discovered the city by foot. We went to the Cathedral Square which contains Szeged's most important buildings and monuments, to the National Pantheon where you can find statues and reliefs of 80 notables running along an arcade around three sides of the square and to the Ferenc Móra Museum.
In the evening we ate in the Bistorant, a restaurant and wine bar, and went to a bar called Smooth where I drank a BLUEBERRY HOT CHOCOLATE and where others had a chocolate fondue. It was really good!
On sunday we had breakfast, checked out and visited the New Synagogue before the bus took us back home. For some people the Hungarian Art Nouveau New Synagogue, which was designed by Lipót Baumhorn in 1903, is Szeged's most compelling sight. It is the most beautiful Jewish house of worship in Hungary, as it is said, and is still in use, though the community has dwindled from 8000 before WW2 to about 50 people. The grace and enormous size of the exterior and the blue-and-gold interior are very impressive.
This was our first small holiday weekend and now I am happy to be able to make the first check on the list of the places I want to see.