Győr is not only a city of waters but also of culture and active recreation. Below we recommend the city's main sights — all within a short walk or bicycle ride of the city centre.
Győr’s renewed baroque main square is an important stage of city life: cafés, restaurants and ice-cream parlours await visitors. In its centre stands the Mária Column, erected by Bishop Lipót Kollonich in 1686 to commemorate the recapture of Buda from the Turks.
Founded by King St Stephen, built in Romanesque style in the 11th century, renewed in Gothic after the Mongol invasion and rebuilt in early baroque after the Turkish era. Pope John Paul II elevated it to basilica rank in 1996. The northern aisle holds the Weeping Virgin Mary painting brought from Ireland.
The Carmelite church was built between 1721 and 1725 to the designs of the monk Márton Athanáz Wittwer. The square is also home to the oldest building complex of the city, the 13th-century Castle, whose fortifications were built in the 16th–17th centuries.
The pedestrian street is the artery of the old town. A marble plaque on the building at number 18 and a row of red bricks in the pavement recall the former Fehérvár Gate (1792) and the fire tower built above it.
The renewed stepped embankment is a favourite meeting point of locals — in good weather rowers and dragon boats glide by. Radó Island, embraced by two branches of the Rába, is a popular place for walks between the city districts.
The neo-baroque City Hall, built at the turn of the 19th century, is the dominant building of Szent István Road and one of the city’s best-known symbols — especially spectacular when lit at night.
Városház tér 1
The dominant building on Szent István út is the neo-baroque City Hall, built at the turn of the 19th century — one of Győr’s most famous buildings and a symbol of the city.
pedestrian street
A marble plaque on the building at number 18 and a row of red bricks in the pavement recall the former Fehérvári Gate (1792) and the fire tower built over it to protect the town.
main square
Győr’s renewed baroque main square is an important stage of city life — cafés, restaurants and ice-cream parlours await their guests.
Széchenyi Square
Bishop Lipót Kollonich of Győr erected this monument in the centre of the square in 1686 to commemorate the recapture of Buda from the Turks.
Széchenyi Square
The church of St Ignatius of Loyola, the monastery and the grammar school were built by Jesuits in the 17th century. On the south side of the square, the early baroque Apothecary Museum still operates in its original function.
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The multi-storey building combines baroque and neoclassical features on its main façade. Built as an inn at the end of the 15th century, it gained its modern form with a renovation completed in 2010.
Széchenyi tér 5
The magnificent baroque palace was built in 1741–42 by Benedek Sajghó, Archabbot of Pannonhalma. It has housed a museum since 1949; today it is an exhibition venue of the Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History, presenting the history of the city.
Széchenyi tér 4
According to tradition, it takes its name from the wooden stump under its corner balcony, into which journeymen visiting Győr hammered nails. The iron stump is in fact the surviving sign of a spice merchant who worked here in the 1830s.
Király u. 17
Formed by joining small houses of medieval origin, the palace gained its present shape in the 18th century. Today it is an exhibition venue of the Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History, home of the Radnai Collection and temporary exhibitions.
Margit Kovács exhibition
The 17th-century listed building houses the life’s-work exhibition of Margit Kovács (1902–1977), the Győr-born ceramic artist, renewed in 2022.
market & iron rooster
The square is home to Győr’s bustling market; an antiques fair is held on the 3rd Sunday of every month. The iron rooster wind vane on the round fountain preserves the city’s Turkish legend — the original is kept in the collection of the Rómer Flóris Museum.
Erected for the 400th anniversary of the recapture of Győr from the Turks, the statue depicts the two generals — Adolf Schwarzenberg and Miklós Pálffy — who led the successful recapture of the castle.
Káptalandomb
Founded by King St Stephen, first built in Romanesque style in the 11th century and rebuilt in Gothic style after the Mongol invasion, the cathedral was reconstructed in early baroque style after Turkish devastation. Pope John Paul II elevated it to basilica rank in 1996. The northern aisle holds the Weeping Virgin Mary painting brought from Ireland in 1655.
Káptalandomb
The seat of the thousand-year-old bishopric of Győr; its jewels are the 13th-century residential tower and the 15th-century Dóczy Chapel. Its cellars house an exhibition on the life and work of Bishop Vilmos Apor.
Bécsi kapu tér
Built between 1721 and 1725 to the designs of the Carmelite monk Márton Athanáz Wittwer. The main altarpiece depicts St Stephen and Prince St Emeric paying homage to the Virgin Mary; the baroque Foam Mary statue stands in a niche beside the church.
Bécsi kapu tér
The 13th-century complex, extended in the 14th–15th centuries, is the oldest building of the city. Its fortification system (castle bastion, Sforza bastion) was built in the 16th–17th centuries.
between the branches of the Rába
Embraced by two branches of the Rába between the Belváros, Újváros and Sziget districts, the island is a popular place for walks and relaxation in historic surroundings.
Kossuth u.
The neologue synagogue was built between 1868 and 1870 and completely renovated in 2006. Today it operates as a multicultural institution and permanently hosts János Vasilescu’s private collection of post-war Hungarian fine art.
Photos of the old town come from the free (CC0) collection of Wikimedia Commons.
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