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Békéscsaba and Gyula

Békéscsaba town of county rank, the largest town of the With its lively tourism, Gyula is the tourist centre of Békés

region, located in the south-eastern part of Hungary, has County. The spa town, famous for its medicinal water and
60,000 inhabitants, road and railway junctions, and a de- its pleasant and shady parks, is an ideal place for relaxation,
veloping infrastructure. It is the industrial, commercial, and it is the jewel of the Great Plain with its many monu-
and transport centre of Békés County. ments and great past. Ferenc Erkel, one of the greatest

The Jókai Theatre, the only permanent theatre company in Hungarian composers, was born here; his birth house is
Békés County with high-quality performances, is awaiting a museum today.

its audience in Békéscsaba. The town’s main attraction is the Castle Bath, set in the

One of our most famous painters, Mihály Munkácsy, natural park of the former Almásy mansion, which has

stepped on the route of worldwide fame in Békéscsaba. been declared a nature reserve. The Bath has been a quali-
The town’s two major exhibitions are the Mihály Munká- fied health resort since 1985. Next to the Castle Bath, an-

csy Museum and the Munkácsy Memorial House opened other attraction of Gyula is the only lowland brick fortress

in the so-called “Omaszta mansion”. Békéscsaba is men- of Central Europe, built in the 15th century, which has
tioned by many as a place where even the fences are made remained sound. The Gyula Castle Theatre returned to

from sausages. Indeed, sausage-making has an old tradi- the castle’s courtyard and waits to entertain visitors with
tion; all the families in Békéscsaba used to have their own spectacular historical dramas and various genres of con-
recipes for sausage-making. The internationally renowned temporary prose theatre performances from the fi rst of

Sausage Festival of Csaba, with its long history, is the big- July to the middle of August. In addition to the castle’s
gest event of the town, which celebrates the sausage of courtyard, performances and festivals are held on the lake
Békéscsaba. stage, as well, transforming Gyula into a real festival town.

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