Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Area Code
26
Location
24km north of Budapest
10am-5.30pm Mon-Thu, to 6pm Fri-Sun)
SIGHTS
SQUARE
FŐ TÉR
The colourful heart of Szentendre is surrounded by 18th- and 19th-century burghers'
houses, with the
Memorial Cross
(1763), an iron cross decorated with faded icons on a
marble base, in the centre. To the northeast is the Serbian Orthodox
Blagoveštenska
10am-5pm Tue-Sun)
(1754). With fine baroque and rococo elements, it hardly looks 'eastern'
from the outside. But the ornate iconostasis and elaborate 18th-century furnishings inside
immediately give the game away.
MUSEUM
MARGIT KOVÁCS CERAMIC COLLECTION
Established in an 18th-century salt house, this museum is devoted to the work of Szen-
tendre's most famous artist. Margit Kovács (1902-77) was a ceramicist who combined Hun-
garian folk, religious and modern themes to create Gothic-like figures. Some of her works
are overly sentimental, but many others are very powerful, especially the later ones in which
mortality is a central theme.
CHURCH
BELGRADE CATHEDRAL
600Ft; 10am-6pm Tue-Sun May-Sep, to 5pm Tue-Sun Oct-Apr)
The seat of the Serbian Orthodox bishop in Hungary, built in 1764, rises from within a
walled courtyard to the north of Fő tér. One of the cathedral's outbuildings contains the ex-
cellent
Serbian Ecclesiastical Art Collection
(Szerb Egyházművészeti Gyüjtemény;
GOOGLE MAP
; 26-312 399; Pátriárka utca 5; admission 600Ft; 10am-6pm Tue-Sun May-Sep, to
5pm Tue-Sun Oct-Apr)
, a treasure trove of icons, vestments and gold church plate.
