Search
Brazil
Argentina
Bolivia
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Guyana
French Guiana
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Uruguay
Venezuela
Germany
Austria
Belgium
Croatia
Denmark
Spain
Finland
France
Greece
the NetherlandsHungary
Ireland
Iceland
Italy
Luxembourg
Norway
Poland
Portugal
the United Kingdom
the Czech Republic
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Canada
the United States
Mexico
the Dominican RepublicTurkey
South Africa
Australia
Fiji
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
Bács-Kiskun · Hungary
In the destination Baja and Gemenc.
In the photo: Baja Town Hall, Szentháromság tér
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
Port city on the left bank of the Danube beside the Sugovica arm, with a broad main square open to the river, Szentháromság tér. It had Hungarian, German, Serbian and Bunjevci populations, and its churches and museums tell that story. It is the city of Bajai halászlé, the local fish soup, and the gateway to the Gemenc floodplain forest.
There's no accommodation in the guide yet in Baja.
how to get there · how many days · itinerary · questions
The local experience
Baja’s main square, open on one side to the Sugovica branch of the Danube. It houses the town hall in the old Grassalkovich Palace and the Holy Trinity column from the 18th century. It is the stage for the fish soup festival in July.
Baja Museum of History and Ethnography, with Hungary’s most renowned folk fishing collection. Exhibitions cover life on the Danube, the city’s 300 years and the region’s ethnic groups. It is named after General Türr István, who was born in Baja.
Gallery housed in the Vojnich manor, a classical building from around 1820. It brings together works by the painter Nagy István, who lived in Baja, and the sculptor Telcs Ede, as well as a collection of 20th-century Hungarian modern art.
Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas, the oldest of the two surviving out of the three Serbian churches Baja once had. Completed in 1775 and remodeled in 1779 in late Baroque style, it preserves an iconostasis from the late 18th century.
Stone viewpoint and memorial, circular in plan with columns, inaugurated in 1938 in honor of General Türr István. It stands at the meeting point of the Sugovica branch and the Danube, with views of the Türr István bridge and the Gemenc forest.
A narrow-gauge forest train that departs from the Pörböly ecotourism center, about 8 km from Baja, and crosses the Gemenc floodplain forest in Duna-Dráva National Park. The center has exhibitions about the wildlife and life in the forest.
