After the great floods of the "Blonde Tisza" in 1879, a well-planned new city was built. There are many wonderful buildings in Eclectic and Art Nouveau style. The traditional sparkling cultural atmosphere and the good schools of Szeged nurtured many a great writer, poet and scientist. The Nobel-prize laureate Albert Szent-Györgyi gained global renown when he separated pure vitamin C from paprika, the spice of Szeged.

The famous buildings of Dome Square are: the Bishop's Palace, the Theological College, institutions of the University and the Catholic boarding school, and the neo-Romanesque style Bishop's Cathedral. The Dome Square serves as the scene of the internationally renowned Szeged Outdoor Festival each summer. Figures of the square's musical clock can be seen for 9 minutes after the chimes of noon each day.

The treasure of the near-by Greek Orthodox Serb Church is a rococo iconostasis. Széchenyi Square is dominated by the Art Nouveau tower building of the City Hall. The monumental Moorish-Art Nouveau New Synagogue building is one of the most beautiful Jewish temples of Europe. The majestic atmosphere of its interior is provided by the white-gold-blue ornamentation. The replica of the internationally renowned Black Madonna painting of Czestochowa (Poland) can be found in the Church of Our Lady of the Snow.