The Votive Church — officially the Cathedral of Our Lady of Hungary — dominates Dóm Square with twin neo-Romanesque towers rising 91 metres above the city. It is the fourth-largest church in Hungary and by far the most visible landmark in Szeged, visible from the ring boulevards and from the Tisza bridges on a clear day. The interior is richly decorated with mosaics, frescoes, and a large organ that remains one of the finest in Central Europe.
The church serves as both the cathedral of the Diocese of Szeged-Csanád and the iconic backdrop for the annual Open-Air Festival, when a temporary stage is erected in Dóm Square with the illuminated façade as scenery. Evening performances — opera, ballet, classical concerts — against this backdrop are worth attending even if you have little interest in the specific programme. The surrounding colonnade that frames the square was built at the same time and is lined with statues of notable Hungarians; Albert Szent-Györgyi, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine while based at the nearby university, is among them.