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...
The small, dilapidated church built on the foundations of the medieval church was closed by the Bishop of Vác in 1842. In the spring of 1844, the church was demolished, with the exception of the three-storey Baroque tower, which still...
The Lutheran church at 9 Kossuth Lajos Street, in the centre of Szentes, stands out with its fine proportions and slender, soaring tower, next to the Reformed and Orthodox churches. The church blends harmoniously into the townscape. With its neo-Gothic,...
A Szent Miklós magyar ortodox templom Szentes legrégibb műemléke. A XVIII. század első felében a háborús viszonyok miatt számos görög kereskedő család menekült Magyarországra, közülük többen Szentesen telepedtek le. Hazájukból hozott ortodox vallásukat kezdetben titokban, magánházaknál gyakorolták. Számuk Szentesen 1773-ban...
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...
