WORLD HERITAGE SITES : EARLY CHRISTIAN NECROPOLIS of PECS
Some excerpts: Pecs is very lovely town with beautiful cathedral, ramparts, pedestrian streets and traditional restaurants located in Southern Hungary near the Croaton border.
The complaint here is the glass coverings used to protect some of the tomb structures which is reflective. I must say this is not the only place a tourist encounters glass; in museum displays in America too. These appraisals are valuable but most are pre-Covid so do check with the site to find out the latest information.
"The Romans also brought Christianity with them and the World Heritage Site of Pecs is about this - early Roman, Christian tombs, in a condition not found anywhere else in the world. All the Roman tombs are centrally located around Pecs' beautiful Basilica of St. Peter with its four towers. The tombs are small and narrow and Christian symbols decorate the graves, There are biblical frescos, Adam and Eve, Daniel in the lions den and the Jug - The Holy Sacrament.
WHC - UNESCO : PECS CHRISTIAN ROMAN TOMBS
Excerpts: In the 4th century A.D. a remarkable series of decorated tombs were constructed in the cemetery in the town of Sopiana, in the Roman Province of Pannonia. .. The burial chambers, chapels and mausoleum excavated on the site of the Sopianae cemetery form a complex that bears witness to an ancient culture and civilization that had a lasting impact. It is the richest collection of structural types of sepulchral monuments in the northern and western Roman provinces reflecting a diversity of cultural sources.
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