A walk around Szeged: Water tower from the beginning of the twentieth century

"Really, you were in that city a few months ago?" my friend asked me when I told him where I went on a mini-vacation.
I visit the small town in Hungary, near the border with Serbia, every time I have a little time - enough for a trip, but not enough for a further destination.
"Yes. Again in Szeged, because there are many interesting things in that city".
And it really is.

But that doesn't apply only to that city.
Even in the city where you live, with each new walk and passage through the streets, parks and squares that you have already visited and seen several times, you look at them with "different eyes", things that you have already seen pass by and your attention is drawn to some new ones that you have not seen or some smaller details that have escaped you until now.

And when it's a city you don't live in, you just have to go in a direction you haven't gone before and new vistas open up before you.

So now, in Szeged, I decided to take a walk along the banks of the Tisa River and head to a part of the city where I had never passed.
To that part of the city, the road took me through the streets I had already passed and I had the opportunity to "determine the material".

I started from the square in front of the big museum, with the name of the city I'm visiting.

The beautiful exterior of the museum, with flower gardens and benches to rest on, is a real treat for the eyes.

When the museum building with the name of the city is captured in one frame, you get a picture for a postcard.
Flower gardens and beautiful buildings were already topics of interest to me, so I took more detailed pictures of some of the monuments and sculptures I passed by.

Through a park with exercise equipment, I came out onto a promenade by the banks of the river Tisa.

A well-designed and well-organized promenade, with beautiful parks, is located high above the river level and it is a shame that it was not lowered closer to the water, but I believe that this was done for safety reasons, because the Tisa can also flood, and then such a beautiful promenade would be destroyed.

The shade of tall trees with large canopies is probably the ideal place to rest in the hot summer months.

Walking through the park, I come across several sculptures and a fountain with interesting details.

Heading towards a part of the city we haven't been to before, we pass by some beautiful buildings (when I pass such beautiful buildings that I see for the first time, I don't pay attention to the details, I'll do that another time, the next time I visit these streets 🙂).

We pass through another park, I take pictures of monuments and flower gardens in the same one.

In the large courtyard of the student university next to the cathedral, which I have already presented here, these details attract my attention.
Busts, monuments and inscriptions on the facade of the building, especially these pillars, which I had not noticed until now.

Only now (although I have passed this square several times), I notice the difference in the columns.
That's the beauty of discovering details by going through the same roads again 🙂
We pass by the town hall, where the bridge between the two buildings reminds me of the one in Venice, the "Bridge of Sighs".

We come across a square with a fountain of thermo-mineral water, which Szeged has in abundance, which is why it is rich in spa centers (which I will write about next time).

And after about fifteen minutes of walking along the new streets, I reach the plateau that was the goal of my walk.
Square with a beautiful water tower from 1904.

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With a height of over fifty meters, this water tower would be an excellent viewpoint, however, the doors are closed to visitors.
All that remains for me is to sit on one of the benches placed in the square around the water tower and enjoy the silence, the beauty of the garden and the chirping of birds.

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And to figure out what and where I will walk on the next tour of this beautiful city.

Thank you for stopping by my post and I hope you enjoyed the photos and the story I shared with you

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