The best city hikes and walks in Veszprém

Until the mid-18th century, Szentháromság tér, one of the most beautiful squares of the Castle District, surrounded by the Cathedral, St. Stephen's Church, the Archbishop's Palace and the Biró-Giczey House, was home to narrow streets and tiny houses. Bishop Márton Padányi Biró had the latter demolished and replaced with the Holy Trinity Statue, a typical monument of Hungarian Baroque, modeled on the Holy Trinity Statue in Pest. The 15-meter-high composition was inaugurated on Trinity Sunday in 1750. Its creators were master sculptors Ferenc József Schmidt and Tamás Walch. The main square of the Castle is now named after this group of statues. Source: https://www.veszpreminfo.hu/de/ort/die-statue-der-heiligen-dreifaltigkeit

One of the most beautiful buildings in the castle is the Archbishop's Palace, designed by Jakab Fellner, which stands on the site of the former Queen's Palace and the Bishop's Castle. As early as the time of Stephen I, and probably even earlier, the ecclesiastical and secular centres of the city were located side by side on the northern tip of the castle hill. Among the ecclesiastical buildings there must have been a bishop's palace, but we have very little information about its earliest forms. The current Archbishop's Palace is the work of Bishop Ignác Koller (1762-1763), who commissioned Jakab Fellner to prepare a design for the building in 1763. The entire palace is decorated with frescoes by the world-famous master Johann Cymbal from 1772. The furniture is the result of centuries of collecting and buying. The building is rich in 18th-century art treasures: paintings, engravings, sculptures and furniture. The palace's collection includes, for example, the desk of Bishop Károly Hornig (1888-1917), a suede sofa made for Franz Joseph's visit, the furniture of Queen Elisabeth (Sissy) and her gifts, including the chasuble made from the train of her coronation dress for the high clergyman. Source: https://www.veszpreminfo.hu/de/ort/erzbischofspalast

The ascent is possible through a turnstile against coin insertion.

Queen Elisabeth of Hungary (full name: Erzsébet Amália Eugénia, German: Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie von Wittelsbach, Duchess in Bavaria, Czech: Alžběta Bavorská; Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, December 24, 1837 – Geneva, Switzerland, September 10, 1898) Bavarian princess from the House of Wittelsbach, Empress of Austria and Queen of Bohemia from 1854 and Queen of Hungary from 1867 until her death in 1898 by her marriage to Emperor and King Franz Joseph I. In reference to Ernst Marischka's film adaptations from 1955–1957, she was nicknamed Sisi in the family circle, the popular name Sissi spread in the press and in common usage. When Elisabeth was sixteen, she entered into a love marriage with the Austrian Emperor Ferenc József I in 1854. With this marriage, the incompletely educated princess entered the much stricter etiquette of Viennese court life, where she soon came into conflict with her mother-in-law, Archduchess Zsófia. Erzsébet often spent time in Hungary and established close relations with the Hungarians. They also attribute a major role to him in the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867. The last decade of her life was marked by the suicide of her only son, heir to the throne Rudolf, and his mistress, Baroness Maria von Vetsera, in Mayerling and the mourning of the queen. After that, he withdrew almost completely from public life, spent most of his time traveling and, with few exceptions, wore only black. He often visited the Palace of Achilleion, built on the island of Corfu. She was obsessed with her appearance, her slim figure and the constant preservation of her beauty, practices that were already legendary during her lifetime. In 1898, she was fatally wounded in Geneva by an Italian anarchist, Luigi Lucheni, and died shortly after the assassination attempt. Her final resting place is in Vienna, in the Imperial Crypt of the Capuchins.

The predecessor of the current museum was opened by director Dezső Laczkó in 1904. At that time, visitors could admire mainly archaeological and natural science finds here. As the collection grew, it became necessary to build a separate building, today's Dezső Laczkó Museum, in order to be able to present these treasures in a vivid way. The 100-year-old, four-storey Cultural Palace in the centre of Veszprém was built according to the designs of István Medgyaszay. The building housed Hungary's first public library, the Veszprém County Museum and Library, which today - along with the data and photo archives - serves as a treasure trove for hundreds of researchers. Source: https://www.veszpreminfo.hu/de/ort/laczko-dezso-museum

A quiet oasis not far from the center with a lot of patina. Only a few active graves still there... the old, dilapidated graves are special witnesses of a bygone era.

Close to the university and museum

Bicycle is bad near the university