Debrecen

Being Hungary’s second largest city, Debrecen is the cultural, scientific, economic and commercial centre of East-Hungary and is situated 37 km from the Hortobágy Puszta, a World Heritage-site.

It is unique for a city to have a building with such a strong symbolic meaning as Debrecen has its Reformed Cathedral. Debrecen has another famous building – the Reformed College with its library that was built in 1538. After National Museum, Déri Museum is the largest museum in Hungary in which the world-famous Mihály Munkácsy’s paintings can be seen.

Access

By car: from Budapest on route M3 and M35 motorway (220 km – 2 hours).
By rail: on Intercity trains (app rox. 2.5 hour journey, trains depart every hours from the Western Railway Station).
By air: Debrecen airport.

Programs and sights

Sight-seeing walk in Debrecen, Aquaticum Mediterranean Experience Bath, the Tanners’
House (master pieces of Hungarian folk art), Great Forest (Theme park and zoo) Botanical garden, “Bánki” garden, “Bihari” plane, Wrangler show on the Hortobágy along with a 2 hours’ carriage drive. Learn more about the famous black ceramics of Nádudvar and their procedure. Trip to Tokaj including a river cruise and wine-tasting.

At the Cívis Bika farm: Goulash-party and dance learning, ox-roast (min. 60 people), open-air pork-roast (min. 30 people), traditional Hungarian dishes prepared in stew-pot, ”slambuc”, fish-soup, weekend grill party, bacon roasting, ”lángos”=scone baked in oven.