Eastern and Central Europe (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

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SZENTENDRE TOWN

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Barcsay Collection 7

Belgrade Church and Museum

of Serbian Orthodox

Ecclesiastical Art 4

Bogdányi Utca 5

Charles Ferenczy Museum 2

Fő Square 1

Margit Kovács Ceramics

Collection 6

Templom Square 3

VISITORS’ CHECKLIST

25 km (16 miles) N of Budapest.

* 22,000. £ Dunakanyar

körút (HEV). @ ª Dunakanyar

körút. 4 Dunakorzó

(summer only). n Tourinform,

Dumtsa Jenő utca 22,

(026) 317 965. _ Serb Folk

Festival (19 Aug).

officially a cathedral. Built
between 1756 and 1764, it is
a sub lime mix of Baroque and
Rococo styles, its clock tower
topped by a tall spire. Inside,
it contains icons of Orthodox
saints by Vasili Ostoic and a
red marble altar.
In the garden outside the
church, the Museum of
Serbian Orthodox Ecclesiastical
Art has around 2,000 icons,
vest ments, treasures and art
objects brought here in the
last 150 years after the clo sure
of their original host churches.

P Bogdányi Utca

Imre Ámos/Margit Anna

Museum # 9am–5pm Tue–

Sun; Jun–Aug: 9am–7pm Fri–

Sun. & 8 7

Winding its way north from

Fő Square, Bogdányi utca is a

lively thoroughfare lined with

historical buildings, and

packed with many shops,

stalls and portrait painters.

The Imre Ámos/Margit

Anna Museum at No. 10

com memorates the life and

works of well-known

painters Imre Ámos

and Margit Anna,

who married in

1936, and moved to

Szentendre in 1937.

Ámos, a Jew, was

taken to a labour

camp in Vojvodina in

1940, where he

continued to paint.

He was deported to

Germany in 1944, where he

died, prob ably in a

concentration camp. His wife

Margit lived until 1991. Her

Cubist paintings are on the

ground floor, while Ámos’s

works, including his account

of life in the camp, are

displayed on the first floor.

Icons of Orthodox saints in the
Belgrade Church

A wine barrel sign

in Bogdányi utca

A cross on the corner

of Bogdányi utca and Lázár

tér stands where the

body of the legen dary

Serb ruler Prince

Lázár once lay in a

church. He was

killed by a traitor

at the Battle of

Kosovo Polje in

1389. His body
      was taken back to
      Serbia in the 1800s,
      and the church was
      later destroyed in a fire.
      Built between 1741 and
      1746, Preobraženska Church,
      is another fine Baroque
      Serbian Ortho dox church.
      It is also famous for the
      annual Serb Folk Festival
      that takes place here on
      19 August.

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Railway and
Bus Stations
500 m (550 yards)
River boat Pier
200 m
(220 yards)
Hungarian
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Barcsay
Collection
Margit Kovács
Memorial Museum János Kmetty Ceramics Collection
Charles Ferenczy
Museum
Blagoveštenska
Church
Belgrade Church and
Museum of Serbian
Orthodox Ecclesiastical
Art
Požarevačka
Church
Peter-Paul
Church
Town Hall
Culture
House
Imre Ámos/Margit
Anna Museum
Art Mill
Czobel
Museum