Zsolnay Cultural District
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Zsolnay Cultural District

Classified as a Hungarikum, this leisure complex offers exhibitions, heritage buildings, various entertainment options, and picturesque parks hiding numerous fascinating Zsolnay sculptures.

This is where the Zsolnay family known for porcelain making lived and worked in the 19th and 20th centuries. On the site of their world-famous ceramic factory, the Zsolnay heritage lives on with new content maintaining its dignity in a beautifully rebuilt area of 5 hectares.

Its painting-like parks and streets have a total of 15 protected heritage buildings and 88 public Zsolnay sculptures. Every single square metre of the Quarter has countless little things worth seeing, not to mention its atmospheric cafés, artisan shops and high-quality restaurants.

Zsolnay Quarter has a unique exhibition presenting the Zsolnay heritage. With an estimated value of two billion Hungarian Forint, the collection of dr. László Gyugyi returned from America consist of almost 700 ceramic products and is named The Golden Age of Zsolnay.

The earliest Zsolnay products are displayed at the Pink Zsolnay Exhibition, about 1200 of them. These two are complemented by the Zsolnay Family and Factory History Exhibition.

On the hill near the Zsolnay Cultural District, the Zsolnay Mausoleum can be seen in its full beauty—42 lions protect the secret of eosin at the resting place of the Zsolnay family.