Szent Mihály-székesegyház
Szent Mihály-székesegyház—also known as Szent Mihály bazilika—is the Catholic cathedral of the Archdiocese of Veszprém. Archaeology shows that a church stood on this site as early as 1001, and the building appears in documents kept in the Abbey of Pannonhalma. After a fire, the cathedral was rebuilt in Gothic style in 1380 and dedicated to St. Michael in 1400; parts of the crypt still date from that period. The building suffered further damage during the Turkish occupation, but in the eighteenth century it was restored in Romanesque and Gothic forms. Later restoration work in 1907–1910 removed surviving baroque elements. The cathedral also played a cultural role: between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it hosted concerts featuring major European composers, including Mozart, Haydn, and Ludwig van Beethoven. …
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