Following the footsteps of Sándor Márai

City walk information: The city walk starts in front of the Košice Visitor Centre at Hlavná 59 and takes approximately 1.5 hours. The tour is led by an experienced guide in the language of your choice. Discounts for groups are possible.
To make a reservation contact the Košice Visitor Center at info@visitkosice.eu or +421 917 851 943.

Sándor Márai is a world-wide known persona that does not need to be specially introduced.
Márai wrote forty-six books, mostly novels, and was considered by literary critics to be one of Hungary's most influential representatives of middle class literature between the two world wars. His childhood and youth had strong links with Košice and are being remembered in his home town via the Project – Culture of Košice – The European Capital of Culture 2013.
Marai was born on 11 April 1900 in Košice, attended Premonstratensian secondary schools in Košice, Prešov and Budapest. He studied in Prague, Frankfurt, Berlin and Paris finally ending up in America. After coming of age, he would only return to Košice on vacations, but remained faithful to its memory, which is often reflected in his literary works.
Our tour will take you to his memorial room at the house in the Mäsiarska Street where Márai lived as a child. After visiting the room you will learn about both the hurt but also the love that Márai managed to breathe into his books. Given that his books have been translated into more than 40 languages and he raised the profile of the town more than any other native of Košice, this tour will provide you with the great chance to learn interesting things about him and breathe real old town atmosphere to your visit.

Tour: The Visitor Center - Premonstratensian secondary school – former Hotel Europe – Maleter’s House – Márai’s studio of the Thalia Theatre – St. Elisabeth’s Cathedral – former Megay’s sweetshop – Márai’s statue - Memorial Room at the house in the Mäsiarska Street – Bankov