The House

Staying at Tiszavirág feels like being a guest at a friend’s house.

It’s a unique place in Hungary where design meets tradition in both architecture and gastronomy.

The renovation preserved the characteristics of this architecturally significant building, with new sections separated from the old by glass walls. The building is one-story high, its cast-iron balcony is decorated with spiral lines and its staircase reflects Renaissance architecture. The former hat shop, later a shoemaker’s workshop, now serves as a breakfast and café area. In the courtyard, there’s a display kitchen, while the basement features a traditional sauna and a “tepidarium” with a marine climate room.

The History of the House

Before nationalization, the Balassa House was part of the great Balassa estate, which included Kistelek and Sándorfalva. Built by goldsmith Salamon Politzer between 1858 and 1859, the Balassa House is one of the romantic buildings constructed in the 1860s, where we know little about the craftsmen who represented such exquisite architectural, decorative, and artistic taste and knowledge. It served as a merchant-bourgeois house, housing the law offices of Soma Bak and later Lajos Pollák in the early 1950s.