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Church of Felsőváros (Sacred Heart)

Felsővárosi (Jézus Szíve) templom

Roman Catholic church. One of the churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kaposvár. Former here was a cemetery. In 1764 a chapel was built in honour of St. John of Napomuk for the Piarist Fathers. In 1824 the chapel was extended and tower was added to it. In 1942 a new church was built on its place; the tower remained untouched. The interior of the new church is very simple and light.

Address: Deák Ferenc tér

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Axenti House
Axenti-ház
L-shaped, one-storey building with gabled roof. The gate is in the eastern edge's axis of the street's facade. On the south facade of the courtyard wing is the Classicist grid lines hanging corridor decorated with the builder's monogram. The rooms in the northern wing of the ground floor covered by 'carapace' and 'barrel' vaults. The upstairs rooms are mat plane ceiling. The windows are made in the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century. György Axenti, a Greek leather merchant, built in 1817. Between 1845-1872 operated on the floor was the Savings Bank of Nagykanizsa. From 1891, here was a shop of Reichenfeld Gyula wholesaler. The main facade decorated by Deák Ferenc bust (György Fischer) 1997.
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Bankpalota Restaurant
Traditional restaurant and pizzeria.
Mon–Thu Sun 11:00–22:00, Fri Sat 11:00–23:00HUF 1900, pizza HUF 1150, lunch menu HUF 950
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Bank Palace
Bankpalota
Established in 1879 as the sub-office of the Austro-Hungarian Savings Bank. This bank is one of the oldest in Hungary. The palace was built with a splendid cupola looking onto the main square on the plans of József Hubert. It was completed in 1902-1903 in Eclectic style. Its interior bears all the features of a financial institution. This was a regional unit of the National Bank between 1924 and 1987 and of the Credit Bank (Kereskedelmi és Hitelbank) after 1987.
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Roman Catholic Parish House
Római katolikus plébániaház
It used to be the Lackenbacher House. An L-shaped, one-story building. The street side is gabled, the wing of the court with half-gabled roof covered. The arched entrance gate located at eastern end of the street facade. In the middle of the facade on the second floor can be seen a wrought iron balcony with consoles. The facade decorated with plaster in romantic style. The ceilings of the ground-floor rooms are made mostly 'barrel-vault'. To the second floor a three-arm, vaulted staircase leading. Built in the 1860s by Heinrich Lackenbacher, who was that time the main food dealer of the Austrian military. From 1898 it was owned by Fülöp Grünhut grain merchant (Deák tér 2 also was his property). Since 1940 the building has operated as the parish hall of the R.C. Sacred Heart Church.