The collection titled „Memories of Brickmaking in Szentes” was jointly created by three local brick collectors: Rita Bencsik, Attila Bugyi, and Zoltán Nagy. The purpose of the collection is to commemorate the once-prestigious brick factories and kilns of our town....
One of Szentes’s oldest brick houses, built around 1830, was originally a prestigious town house; one of the Károlyi family’s stewards lived here, and indeed, oral tradition holds that Petőfi’s father-in-law, Ignác Szendrey, also resided here. From around 1920, Péter...
The Ecseri church ruins are the only, and partially standing, medieval monument in Szentes and its surrounding area. The remains of the building can still be seen today along the road leading from Szentes to Szarvas, in the middle of...
The spa, reminiscent of Turkish baths, was built in 1962. Szentes’s first hot spring well classified as medicinal water provides the thermal and medicinal water. This well, the town’s first, drilled in 1957, is 1,735 metres deep, with a water...
Where culture and entertainment meet. Szentes’s main square, in the heart of the town, hosts various festivals, events and fairs, and from here you can also step straight into the József Koszta Museum; the Great Reformed Church is also located...
Szentes’s first artesian well was drilled almost 140 years ago The water source, opened in 1886, was complemented a year later by a group of statues brought from France. This work of unparalleled beauty graced the town’s main square until...
Adjacent to Kossuth Square is the slightly smaller, regularly landscaped Erzsébet Square. It was formerly known as Holy Trinity Square, named after the Holy Trinity statue erected on its western side in 1886.
On the northern side of Kossuth Square stands one of Szentes’s most significant listed buildings, the early classicist Reformed Church (1808–1826). The lower part of its tower with a fire-watch circular balcony was built in 1774. The church is one...
“The Island of Adventures” Where, alongside adventure pools, slides, playgrounds and tennis courts, a peaceful green space awaits visitors. In 1953, the National Nature Conservation Council designated Széchenyi Grove as a local nature conservation area. Today, the Grove is a...
The Kurca breaks away from the Tisza below the Körös estuary and winds its way for 15 km through Szentes and its outskirts. It was given its name during the Ottoman period. It is a popular spot for dog walkers,...
