The Őze Lajos Memorial House – Comrade Virág’s RoomThe Őze Lajos Memorial House at the Koszta József Museum in Szentes offers visitors a unique experience: in one of the rooms, Comrade Virág’s legendary room from Péter Bacsó’s film “The Witness”...
In the first room, visitors can gain an overview of the Middle Ages, the period of Ottoman rule, and the Rákóczi War of Independence, before learning about the process by which the settlement became a town. Among other highlights, visitors...
Built in 1905 and renovated in 1997, the Fridrich Photography Museum (the museum’s industrial history exhibition space) is the country’s only rural photo museum. The building, which is a significant feature of the townscape, houses photographs, equipment, tools and instruments...
The Private Collection of Mrs László Pallagi. When she opened her exhibition in 2018, she displayed 400 pieces; since then, this number has grown to 700. Among the colourful figures, a few distinctive characters stand out: cheerful Venetian and Harlequin...
The Southern Great Plain Postal History Memorial Room is housed in the Post Office building on the town’s main street. The exhibition was established in 2003 by a group of postal workers as the result of several decades of collecting....
The Gyuricza Vintage Vehicle and Antiques Museum is an unmissable exhibition venue when strolling through the town centre. We find ourselves transported to a forgotten world that preserves a small island of the past. The gleaming chrome and marvellous designs...
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...
Due to the growth of the Catholic population in Szentes, a need arose in the Felsőpárt district for the construction of a new church. In a decree issued in 1920, the Bishop of Vác called for the division of the...
The Reformed population of Szentes increased significantly in the 19th century. Consequently, in 1871, the presbytery deemed it necessary to build a new church in the Felsőpárt district, as it was too far from the Reformed Great Church in the...
In the spring of 1908, the widow of István Rekettyés established a foundation at the Roman Catholic Church in Szentes to have a chapel built in the Kálvária cemetery. The design competition organised by the parish council was won by...
