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A Royal declaration initiated the reconstruction of Szeged research centre has been established in Szeged where the basic
five days after the devastation of the flood, and nowadays, our questions of physics in the 21st century and the elemental
main task is the preservation and further development of the interaction of light and matter are being explored.
then-created cityscape. In recent years, the public transport Th e row of stone balls in Somogyi Street, inscribed with the
system has been modernized. New tram and trolleybus lines names of the most prominent scientists connected to Szeged,
have been built, and new trams and buses, manufactured serve to remind everyone that knowledge is one of the great-
specially for Szeged, transport the passengers. Th e complete est strengths of Szeged, on which this great city of the Great
reconstruction of Szent István Square, Mars Square, Indóház Plains can and should build its future. And then Szeged, one
Square, and Dugonics Square, the centre of the university of the most brilliant Hungarian cities, will embrace the River
district, has given the downtown a new appearance. Th e ac- Tisza with a “loving heart” even a hundred years later.
commodation capacity has developed signifi cantly: brand Szent-Györgyi Albert’s Agóra is one of the most popular
new, high quality hotels and guest houses await their guests. community spaces of Szeged, which houses the Százszorszép
The role of scientific thinking in shaping the city’s image is Children’s House, the IT history collection, and an open
outstanding, e.g. the ELI project or super laser, which is one laboratory.
of the European Union’s major research projects. Moreover, a
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