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shops, but only rarely is one VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
as deserving of interest as this
particular example. As well as Practical Information
being set in a fine Baroque 50km (31 miles) south of Sopron.
house on Jurisics tér, it con tains Road Map A3. * 12,000.
a superb late 18th-century n Tourinform, Rajnis utca 7,
wooden apothecary counter, (94) 56 31 20.
complete with old medicine Transport
bottles. It looks not unlike £ from Szombathely.
something from a film set. @ from Sopron.
Upstairs the exhibition
continues with a display
Window detail on the front façade, showing how the medicines interior, beautifully decorated,
Kőszeg Synagogue were cleaned, dried, stored is filled with delicately patterned
and prepared. Most were marble columns.
was entirely wiped out during remedies made from natural
the Holocaust. Closed for ingred ients and plants grown
some time, the synagogue is in the pharmacy’s own
to undergo major restoration herb garden.
work, but parts of it can be
visited by calling ahead to R Jesus’s Heart Church
make an appointment. The Jézus Szíve templom
synagogue’s striking façade Fő tér. Tel (94) 56 33 97. Open 9am–
and Neo-Gothic towers can still 6pm daily. & 7
be admired from the outside. This fantastical, Neo-Gothic
wedding-cake church is famous
E Golden Unicorn for its colour ful stained-glass
Pharma ceutical Museum altar windows depicting Saints
Arany Egyszarvú Patikamúzeum István, Imre and Elizabeth.
Jurisics Miklós tér 11. Tel (94) 36 03 37. Built in 1892–4 to designs by
Open by appointment. & 8 7 the Austrian Otto Kott, its
Hungarians tend to be 60-m- (196-ft-) high tower is
fascinated with old chemist the tallest in the city. The Interior of Jesus’s Heart Church

Kőszeg City Centre
ARPÁD
1 Jurisics Castle UNLENECKER TÉR
2 Miklós Jurisics Square UTCA
3 Church of St James GY Ö N G Y Ö S U T C A
4 Synagogue Lutheran
5 Golden Unicorn H E G YA L J A U T C A P É K UT C A Church
Pharmaceutical Museum ZRINYI M. UTCA Synagogue
6 Jesus’s Heart Church VÁ RK ÖR

KÁROLY R. TÁBLAHÁZ SCHNELLER ISTVÁ N UT C A KI SS J Á N O S UT C A
TÉR KELCZ ADELFFY UTCA
Church of V
St James
Jurisics TÁ NC SI CS MIHÁ LY U T CA
Castle BE M J ÓZE F U TCA Á R K Ö R
MIKLÓS
JURISICS Golden Unicorn
TÉR
Pharmaceutical Museum
KELCZ A. UTCA
Town Hall
R ÁJ N IS UTC A
V Á R K Ö R
Heroes’
Gate VÁROSHÁZ FŐ TÉ R
H U NYA DI UT C A
UTCA
VÁ R K Ö R
CHEMEL I. UTCA
Jesus’s K O S S U T H L A J O S UTCA Bus Station
Heart
Church RÁKÓCZI FERENC
0 metres 100 A D Y E N DR E U T C A SZ ÜK UT CA LISZT FERENC UTCA
SZ E NT I M R E HE R CEG UT C A
0 yards 100 UTCA Train Station
GY Ő N J . UTC A
TEM E T Ő U T C A 1.6 km (1 mile)
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