Worth to visit
ZICHY-CHAPEL of Lórév
Did you know?
…that it is not only Pest County’s, but the nation’s only municipality with a Serbian majority? The tiny municipality of hardly 300 residents in the south of Csepel Island has kept its traditions to present day, as the Hungarian-Serbian bilingual street signs also indicate, among others.
LAKIHEGY BROADCASTING TOWER
Since its commissioning in 1933, the broadcasting tower with its height of 314 metres has been Hungary’s highest structure.
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CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST
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...that the fresco-secco of the church is one of the 20th century’s largest contiguous fresco-seccos in Europe? The fresco-secco created by painter László Patay is about 625 m2 in size, its main theme being Jacob`s Dream.
OLD TOWN HALL – FIREWATCH AND VIEWING TOWER
The new, Art Nouveau-style, spired town hall was built in 1901 in the place of the old medieval town hall. The building currently houses the Ráckeve District Court of Justice and a children’s library, and the Firewatch viewing tower was also opened in 2009, offering a unique experience for visitors of the Ráckeve region.
Ráckeve, Kossuth L. u. 4.
SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN MARY
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...that Hungary’s only surviving gothic Serbian orthodox church is found in Ráckeve.
Construction of the church was started by Serbian merchants who fled here from the invading Ottoman Turks in the second half of the 15th century.
The interior of the church is richly decorated: besides the rococo iconostasis, the walls are decorated with Byzantine frescoes, from pedestal to ceiling.
Floodgate of Tass
The Danube arm of Tass at the upper-end of the Csepel-Island was closed as the result of the works in 1870. The designers thought that if they lead the water output into the main bed, with its slim down they would be able to prevent the formation of the „fluvial icecork”, similar to the icy flood in Budapest in 1838.
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