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Szeged the „city of sunshine”

Szeged is located in the southern part of the Great Plains, at Tisza played a decisive role, not only in the birth of the town,

the confluence of the River Tisza and the River Maros, at a but also in its daily life. The medieval village disappeared
distance of 170 km from Budapest; the M5 motorway con- during the Great Flood on 12 March 1879, and the subse-
nects it with the capital. Szeged is the economic, administra- quent reconstruction, which happened with international
tive, and cultural centre of the Southern Great Plains region, cooperation and at an exemplary speed, created the most
which can be reached not only by road, but also by rail, water, modern city of Hungary. With its ring road and boulevard
and air. It is the third largest city of Hungary with a popula- structure, its city centre with palaces, and its cityscape with all
tion of over 170,000 people. Its history dates back centuries; the architectural styles of the turn of the century, Szeged, one
the town was first mentioned in a royal charter from 1183 as of the most visited tourist destinations of Hungary, welcomes

“Cigeddin”. The name Szeged probably came from the word its visitors along the banks of the River Tisza.
‘island’, and we can say without exaggeration that the River
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