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Deák Black Eagle Pharmacy Museum
Collection VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Hundreds of old medicine
bottles and an amazing Practical Information
frescoed ceiling adorn this 60 km (37 miles) SW of Budapest.
Baroque pharmacy, which Road Map C4. * 99,000.
operated until 1971. n Tourinform, Oskola utca 2–4,
(22) 53 72 61. ( daily, Piac tér.
∑ szekesfehervar.hu
Transport
£ from Buda pest. @ from
Budapest. Piac tér.

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Cistercian Church and
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Monastery
The Baroque 18th-century altar
V ÁROSHÁ Z fresco in this church was painted
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direction of the German-born
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Garden of Ruins
The vast size of the Royal
Basilica and burial chapel that
once stood here can be easily
imagined by tracing the
outline of the ruins.

Key
Suggested route
. Bishop’s Palace
The Baroque palace, designed by Jakob
Rieder, was built in 1801 using stone taken
mainly from the ruins of the Royal Basilica.

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