Hiemer House

The Hiemer House is the most flamboyant building in the centre of Székesfehérvár, a rococo townhouse on Oskola utca with a richly painted façade in pinks and creams. The building is in fact a 19th-century knitting together of three older houses — Hiemer, Font, and Caraffa — and the recently restored interiors include painted ceilings, period staircases, and a courtyard you can walk through.

The ground floor and parts of the upper floors are open to the public as exhibition spaces — small art shows, a doll museum on one level, a coffee shop and an ice-cream parlour on the ground floor. The painted ceilings alone are worth a visit.

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When the Hiemer-Font-Caraffa block was restored in 2012, the conservators discovered painted ceilings, rococo stuccowork, and 18th-century wallpaper that had been hidden for two centuries under layers of plaster. The whole complex is now used as a cultural centre.

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