Debrecen Audio Tours

The Hortobagy National Park is Hungary's oldest national park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, covering about 82,000 hectares of grassland, fishponds, and salt lakes about 40 kilometers west of Debrecen. Visitors can drive or take the local narrow-gauge railway. The park is famous for its grey Hungarian cattle, racka sheep, and traditional csikos horsemen who demonstrate their riding skills in summer.

Debrecen's main thermal bath complex is located in Nagyerdo Park, a forested urban park northeast of the city center. The baths use thermal water from a depth of over 1,000 meters, rich in minerals, and include both outdoor pools and indoor facilities. The park itself is worth strolling through for its mature trees and the Debrecen Zoo on its edge.

Debrecen is the city that gave its name to a specific style of Hungarian smoked pork sausage, Debreceni kolbasz, which is wider and more heavily smoked than other Hungarian sausages. The local market hall on Csapó Street sells it alongside honey cake (mézeskalács), túrós pogácsa (cottage cheese scones), and seasonal produce from the Great Plain farms.

The main pedestrianized street, Piac utca, runs south from the Great Reformed Church to the train station and gives you the commercial and architectural heart of the city in a single straight line of about one kilometer. Side streets off this axis contain the old market hall, several churches of different denominations, and the Déri Museum which holds local art and the famous Munkácsy triptych depicting the life of Christ.