Eger - Former Lyceum

Opposite the Cathedral, on Szabadszág tér, stands the building of the former archiepiscopal Lyceum, now the teachers' training college. Built around a rectangular inner courtyard, the building dominates the square and is one of the most important examples of the mid 18th C plait style. Bishop Károly Eszterházy actually intended it to be a Catholic university when he initially instructed F.A. Pilgram and J.I. Gerl to draw up the plans in 1763. However, by the time the building was completed in 1765 - Jakob Fellner, the Eszterházys' own architect, having meanwhile taking over the designing of it - the climate of the time tended to be against a church university of any kind, so this educational establishment had to be content with being