Sopron
Sopron (pronounced "shop-ron"; German: Ödenburg, Croatian: Šopron, Latin: Scarbantia) is a city in Hungary, close to the Austrian border, with a population of about 62,000 (2017). The town is officially bilingual, and its historical German language name is Ödenburg.
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214 places
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"Two Moors" House
Két mór-ház
18th century, baroque. The most beautiful farmer house of which is ornate Baroque gate kept twisted columns decorated with "Moorish" servants.
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Alphapark Shopping Mall
Alphapark Sopron Bevásárló Központ
Alpha Pharmacy (M-F 08:00-18:30; Sa 08:00-17:00), Chen's Cooking (restaurant, daily 11:30-22:00), Coffeeshop Company (M-Sa 09:00-20:00; Su 09:00-18:00), Dm drogerie (M-Sa 09:00-20:00; Su 10:00-17:00), Euronics Technical Store (M-Sa 09:00-20; Su 10:00-16:00), Euro Family household products shop (M-Sa 09:00-20:00, Su 09:00-19:00), Boutiques: Benetton, Brendon Baby Store, NewYorker, 'no age store' - Humanic (shoes, M-Sa 09:00-20:00, Su 10:00-18:00), Játéksziget Sopron (Toys, M-Th 10:00-19:00, F Sa 10:00-20:00, Su 10:00-19:00); Kappa Sportswear (M-Sa 09:00-20, Su 10:00-17:00), Lyric Book Store (M-Sa 9:00-20:00, Sun 10:00-18:00), Optura Optics (M-Sa 09:00-20:00, Su 10:00-17:00), Penny Market (discount supermarket store, M-Sa 07:00-20:00, Sun: 07:00-18:00) Reno (shoes, M-Sa 09:00-20:00, Su 09:00-18:00). Schneider (Watch and Jewellery, M-Sa 09:00-20:00, Su 10:00-17:00) Toy-Star (Game, gift, decoration, M-Sa 09:00-20:00, Su 10:00-17:00). Services: Speedfit Fitness Studio (daily 06:00-24:00), Therapiezentrum Sopron, (English- and German-speaking physiotherapists, Tu-Su 09:00-19:00)
General opening hours Mon-Sat 09:00-20:00, Sun 09:00-22:00
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Amphitheater
Amfiteátrum, Scarbantia Archaeological Park Scarbantia Régészeti Park
A Roman ruin garden with 3.5 meter wide Roman city walls. Later here was the rampart of the 'ispán' castle (11th century) - an Árpád-era fortress, (Latin: Castrum Suprun). Historical Garden. More
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Arany Angyal Inn
Arany Angyal vendégfogadó; lakóház
It was the Golden Angel Inn. Baroque style around 1800. Modified in the second half of the 19th century.
Just from outside
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Aréna Sopron
MKB Aréna Sopron
Bowling, squash, handball field, basketball court, fitness room.
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Baker House Museum
Pék-Ház
From 1686 to 1970, the owners of the house were bakers. After that, the City Council decided to open an exhibition in the building, keeping the entire interior untouched. More in Hungarian.
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Berzsenyi Lutheran High School
Berzsenyi Gimnázium
Protected Monument. Classicist, 1825. Modified in eclectic style in 1894.
Just outside
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Bezerédj house
Bezerédj ház
A baroque building based on medieval foundations, was built around 1710. One of the most beautiful rococo palaces in Sopron.
Just outside
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Botanical garden
Botanikus Kert
Area 17.2 hectares. Protected birds. Protected indigenous and exotic plants.
Closed · opens 8 am tomorrowFree, professional guidance (up to 20 people): Ft 5000 per group, Pre-booking essential
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Buddha Beach & Cafe Club
Meditation practice on Mondays 19:00 to 22:00. Drink sales. Coffees, teas, cocktails, pool, sunbathing, F Sa DJ 'R'N'B' and 'House' Music. Su Live music. Wi-Fi zone.
Massage 2500-4500, tasting waterpipes Ft 1190, 16 types of coffee/17 types of teas Ft 300-800/320; juices (2 dl)/carbonated soft drinks Ft 240-400/300-600; beers/wines (1 dl)/five types Champagne Ft 400-600/140-280/700-4400, spirits, aperitifs (4 cl)/distilled liquors (4cl)/Cocoa Ft 500-550/440-980/370, Cocktails (20 types)/Alcohol-free cocktails Ft 700-2400/700
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CBA supermarket
CBA Egyetem élelmiszer-vegyesbolt
+ unit: CBA Cent Diszkont ( Lackner K. u. 35., open: M-Sa 07:00-20:00, Su 07:00-19:00)
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Caesar-House
Caesar-ház, Soproni Horváth József Gyűjtemény
A corner house. Baroque building with late Renaissance details, built in the 17th and 18th centuries. The second-floor hall made around 1700, early baroque, ornamental stucco ceiling. József Horváth Painter Memorial Exhibition.
Thu-Sun 10:00-13:00, Sat 10:00-13:00 and 15:00-18:00, or by appointmentAdults: Ft 600, student, senior: Ft 300
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Castle of Sopron remains
Vármaradvány
Roman walls remains can be seen here several metrers above the ground (concrete shell protected against the weather). City walls: The town core was surrounding with triple protection ring now only the outer ring wall sections remained. The most impressive part of the Barbican or The large Round Bastion. The large Round Bastion, in the castle district doubles side part of Sopron inner walls. Here, the closed row of houses is broken and a fairly long section of the city walls can be seen. Photos
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Chapter Hall
Káptalan Terem
Public Exhibition Room. Gothic origins at the end of the 13th century, renovated in the beginning of the 14-15th centuries. Ornamental and figurative painting remains, from the 14th century
Apr-Oct: Tue-Sun 10:00-18:00, Nov-Mar: daily 10:00-16:00
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Chen's Wok & Grill Restaurant
Chen's Cooking Wok & Grill Étterem
Try ramen & udon soups, Kan Bian chicken (spicy chicken with vegetable ) or Sa-Za Beef (beef with broccoli).
Daily 11:30-22:00Soups/starter Ft 400-800/600-900, mains Ft 1800/3200, salads/desserts Ft 500-900/500-900, sushis Ft 1300-4000
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Church of St. George
Szent György-templom
Built between 1380-1430 as a Gothic church with single nave. The arched nave closures decorated with stucco. Both sides are chapels. It has got a lively, Italianate facade of the 18th century. The eclectic tower was built in 1882. Next to the sanctuary in the baptisms chapel is some medieval fresco fragment. Furniture of 18th century. The stucco ornaments made between 1705-1706 and its Pietro Antonio Conti's work.
Daily 10:00-17:45. Masses: Sun 09:00, 19:30 (guitar), Mon-Sat 18:00 (with organ)
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City Hall
Városháza
The eclectic style building in the year of the millennium (1989) was completed by Hinträger Móric és Károly plans. On the barock main square. Also in December there is a Christmas market on the square (must see!) Richly decorated (applied arts) interior design and furnishings. Protected Monument.
by appointment
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Civic Apartment houses
Polgári lakóházak
#4 (Baroque, 1710th Modified in the middle of the 19th century. Now office), #5 (18th-century origin. Received its present form in 1841), #7 (details of medieval, mostly Baroque style, 18th century), #9 (Gothic style, 15th century. Modified in Renaissance and Baroque styles in the 17-18th centuries. Upstairs room decorated with stucco ornaments, Baroque, first half of the 18th century.), #13 (medieval, baroque, 18th century), #15 (medieval, Baroque, second half of 17th century), #17 (Baroque, about 1720), #18 (medieval baroque origin 1748. Upstairs areas with frescoes, baroque, 1770-1780), #19 (Baroque, late 17th century), #20 (Baroque, 18th century), #21(medieval, late Renaissance, around 1650. Two first-floor rooms with carved beam ceilings, made in the mid 17th century), #24 (medieval, baroque, 18th century), #26 (details of medieval age, baroque 18th century — its Romantic facade made in circa 1860), #28. (medieval, baroque, 18th century, partly modified).
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Decorative garden with Széchényi Monument
Dísz tér a Széchényi emlékművel
Full figure bronze statue. It was made by Matra Lajos, in 1896.
Open now · open 24 hoursFree
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Dwelling House with eclectic facade
Lakóház
Baroque, 18th century. Interiors of carved wood-beamed ceilings.
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Dwelling houses on Széchenyi square
lakóházak a Széchenyi téren
Protected Monuments #5 (Classicist, 1855-1861. Modified 1879), #14 (early romantic, 1849), #17-18. (Romantic, circa 1860), #19 (Romantic 1856 Designed by Handler Nándor), #20 (Romantic, 1855)
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Dömötöri Confectionery
Dömötöri Cukrászda
Daily deals. Other units: Piazza San Marco Cafe - Confectionery (Lackner K. utca. 35,, [email protected]), Zwinger Café (Várkerület 92.,, ).
Oct-Apr: Mon-Thu 07:00-21:00, Fri Sat 07:00-22:00, Sun 08:00-21:00. Summer (May-Sep) Mon-Thu 07:00-22:00, Fri Sat 07:00-23:00, Sun 08:00-22:00Baked goods/wedding cake Ft 70-400/special prices, permanent available whole cake (slice)/figural cake Ft 360-450/6800-8400, children's cake/photo cake Ft 2100-3700/900-1600, decorated cake/erotic cake Ft 360-600/ask about in the store; boxed desserts/sweet and salty cookies (per kg) Ft 770-850/2500-3000; pies and piece goods Ft 160/470
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Eggenberg House
Eggenberg-ház
17th century, late Renaissance building. There is the Branderburg coat of arms, over the gate, and the Hohenzollern coat of arms, in courtyard with balcony, can be seen.
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Elizabeth Gardens
Erzsébet-kert
The area purchased by the city in 1763. A French public park built as Neuhof (German: New Yard). Expanded in 1900 with the Vághy's garden. One of the oldest Hungarian garden which everyone could freely visit.
Open now · open 24 hoursFree
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Erzsébet Pharmacy
Erzsébet Gyógyszertár
Drugs, medicinal products, food supplements, cosmetics, baby care, blood sugar and pressure measurement, therapeutic equipments.
Mon-Fri 08:00-18:00, Sat 08:00-12:00
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Everybody Fitness
Aerobic-type training (Lessons: M-Th 18:30-19:30). Fitness room, gym, solarium, lie-infrared sauna, massage
Mon-Fri 07:30-22:00, Sat 09:00-18:00, Sun 09:00-13:00gym 8 sessions/Day Ticket Ft 3500/700, solarium 5/10/15 min Ft 300/500/650, horizontal infrared sauna 30 min: Ft 1000 (2014)
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Fabricius-House
Fabricius-ház
From the 14th century with interior from the 17th and 18th centuries. The Gothic hall is a wonderful piece of architecture, but the two story loggia with open staircase in the courtyard and the Gothic and Baroque cellars of the rear building also deserve special attention. The owners of the building were always rich citizens and traders with high ranking social positions. The house is named after one of the owners, mayor and magistrate Endre Fabricius, who purchased the house in 1806. There is a medieval cellar hall with a Roman Lapidary. Here is the former Roman Capitol decorating Trias sculpture group. Three exhibits: Roman Lapidary, "Three thousand years along the Amber Road" archaeological exhibition and 17th and 18th. century bourgeois interior furnishing. Protected Monument
Apr-Sep Tue-Sun 10:00-18:00 or by appointmentAdult/reduced tickets: History of Sopron and its Surroundings Ft 700/350, Archaeological Exhibition - Roman Lapidary Ft 700/350, Town Residences Ft 800/400 (2014)
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Fertő Lake Watercomplex
Fertő-tavi vízitelep
Services: playground, outdoor free showers, drinking fountains, rental shop (Kayak, canoe), snack bar, beach volleyball court, lake cruises, motorboat port.
Closed · opens 8 am tomorrow
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Fertőrákos
German: Kroisbach, Croatian: Rakuš
Highlights: open-air museum of the beautiful stone quarry, and the Fertőrákos mithraeum (Mithras Sanctuary).
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Firewatch Tower
Tűztorony, Ger.:Feuerturm
Landmark of the city is the "fire tower", with a museum of history of the city. 61 m high, there is a wonderful panoramic view from the top. Its cylindrical lower part was built on the remains of the Roman town wall, and served as the north tower of the city from the 13th century onwards. Also on top of the tower is a double-headed eagle, that was a gift from King Ferdinánd II and Queen Eleonóra for the parliamentary session and queen's coronation, both held in Sopron in 1622.
Jan-Mar: daily 09:00-17:00, Apr: daily 10:00-18:00; May-Aug: Mon-Fri 10:00-20:00, Sep-Oct daily 10:00-18:00; Nov: daily 09:00-17:00; Dec: daily 09:00-17:00Ft 1150
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