Attractions and Places To See around the Tisa - Top 9

Nice views over the river but be cautious on the main road as the driving can be very reckless and it does not let up for some time

Szeged

Szeged Cathedral

Many places and monuments that you come across along the way are a testimony to the horror of war and tyranny that is still significant and relevant today. They all have two essential functions, and this is the case for every generation: -1- To commemorate and remember the victims -2- To remind us of the need to keep the peace

“Looking back at the 20th century, we can say: The first half was characterized by the human catastrophes of the two world wars and by the night of fascism, which originated in Germany, swept across almost all of Europe, and found its terrible climax in the Holocaust,” said the long-serving Federal Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927 to 2016) in a speech in Zurich on September 20, 2006. Each of the extremely numerous war memorials / fallen soldiers' memorials has – in addition to the task of commemorating the victims of war and tyranny – the important function of a constant reminder to preserve peace.

The Jewish communities, whose synagogues were largely destroyed during the Nazi regime and which were often wiped out by the Shoah (Holocaust), were honored in May 2024 - especially in these difficult times for them with a rapidly growing, openly expressed anti-Semitism - by awarding the "International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen" to Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt and the Jewish communities in Europe. "With this award, the Charlemagne Prize Board wants to send a signal that Jewish life is a natural part of Europe and that there must be no place for anti-Semitism in Europe. Jewish life is an important part of European history and present - now and in the future. (...) Together with the President of the Conference of European Rabbis, Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, and the Jewish communities in Europe, the Board of Directors ... in 2024 honors the outstanding representative of European Jewry and Jewish life in Europe, which has enriched our continent for centuries and will and must always have its place here."

Even before his election as the head of the Catholic Church, the then Archbishop of Buenos Aires had met several times with Rabbi Abraham Skorka for a joint book project. On the subject of the Holocaust, Jorge Bergoglio (later Pope Francis) said: "The Shoah is a genocide like the others of the 20th century, but with one particularity. I don't want to say that it is the most important and the others are secondary, but there is one particularity, an idolatrous construction against the Jewish people. The pure race, the superman, these are idols on the basis of which National Socialism developed (...) And every Jew killed was a slap in the face for the living God in the name of the idols." (Source: "About Heaven and Earth, Jorge Bergoglio in conversation with Rabbi Abraham Skorka", Goldmann-Verlag, Munich 2014)

The current town hall is the third building on the same site and with the same function. The first, simple town hall was built in 1728, the second was built at the end of the 18th century with the current layout. After the flood in 1879, the square was filled in, so the building appeared too low and cumbersome. Ödön Lechner and Gyula Pártos planned a new floor and a central tower on the old walls. The neo-baroque town hall was opened in 1883 by Franz Josef I, the central window in the staircase preserves the king's famous statement: "Szeged will be more beautiful than ever before". The phoenix bird on the facade commemorates the rebirth of the city after the flood disaster. Also worth noting is the Bridge of Sighs, which was originally built for the king and his entourage. Source: http://szegedtourism.hu/de/rathaus/