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Szentendre
This neat town with a decidedly
Mediterranean feel to it lies barely 20 km from
Budapest (suburban trains departing from Battyhyány
Square every 15 minutes reach it in 30 minutes),
and it has gained a solid reputation as a popular
tourist excursion spot.
Szentendre has preserved its 18-19th century
compact and unified layout.
Its picturesque setting
on the Danube, its architecture and historical
monuments all contributed to the formation over
the years of colonies of painters, sculptors
and artists who lived and still live today in
Szentendre.
Indeed, the very air seems to stimulate the
creative juices!
The town warmly welcomes the visitor, indulging
them with its multitude of spectacular sights
and a fascinating artistic presence.
Longobard cemeteries and Avar memorials are
to be found here, and there is a particularly
strong Serbian culture all around, brought here
by Serb communities fleeing a Turkish onslaught
in the late 17th century.
Most of the houses which
once belonged to wealthy merchants are now museums,
but the Serbian Orthodox churches still function
and visiting hours are fixed for times between
masses which dazzle the onlooker in all their
Baroque pomp, as dies the Rococo inconstancies.
All the listed houses in the center have found
new functions: a restaurant famed throughout
Hungary operates from the attic of one, and
in another the visitor is served fine cakes
and coffee specialties in cafés.
There are gourmet delicacies for the body and
enchanting exhibitions for the mind. In fact
the galleries, workshops, exhibition and museums
just come one after the other.
Seven or eight galleries deal with the marketing
of art.
If anyone becomes particularly interested in
any one of the artists, a studio visit can be
arranged.
An exhibition of works
by Lajos Vajda, Dezsõ
Korniss, Endre Bálint and Piroska Szántó
is set up in the Hunyadi Street old merchant's
house, No.1 Vastagh György Street preserves
ceramics by Margit Kovács whose works
have enjoyed international acclaim for many
decades, while the art of Jenõ
Barcsay is displayed in Dumtsa Jenõ
Street.
Not far from here, an unusual museum shows just
how far a skilled artisan can extend the boundaries
of his trade.
The Marzipan Museum displays how far the plasticity
and coloring of this marvelous and delicious
sweetmeat can - in the right hands - be molded
into just about any shape one could imagine.
These works of art stay locked up in the display
cases, but many more can be sampled at the confectionery
next door.
It would be easy to spend a whole day strolling
about the town and along the Danube embankment,
taking lunch and perhaps an afternoon coffee
and cake, and yet there is still another important
place to see.
Szentendre is home to the
first (and still the largest) open-air museum
in Hungary.
This park displays the continual development
of vernacular architecture from all the regions
of original buildings typical of their area
carefully dismantled and rebuilt in their new
home.
The rooms come fully furnished
with period furniture, linens and beautiful
needlework characteristic of the region in question,
the kitchens display fireplaces and pots and
pans, the pantries have original containers
for foods, sacks and wickerwork baskets, while
the stables are full of all the essential equipment
for animal husbandry. Museum experts revive
the everyday life and holidays of the old peasant
way of living.
Szentendre City Tour:
We are providing you also with
Szentendre city tour on your request. To Szentendre
every 15 minutes going train from Battyhyány
Square and it is about 30 minutes by
train from Budapest.
The price for Szentendre city tour is 60 Euro,
no mater how many person going.
Online Reservation Request
for Szentendre City Tour:
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