PECS CHRISTIAN CRYPTS IN ONE OF HUNGARY'S MOST BEAUTIFUL CITIES: WONDERFUL PLACES IN HUNGARY #17

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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CAVERNS OF AGGTELEK NATIONAL PARK : WONDERFUL PLACES IN HUNGARY #16

Aggtelek National Park Caves - there are over 700 caves recorded and they are protected.

Excerpt: The Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst are outstanding for the large number of complex, diverse, and relatively intact caves concentrated into a relatively small area. Located at the north-eastern border of Hungary and the south-eastern border of Slovakia, this exceptional group of 712 caves...

UNESCO ORG - AGGTELEK  click on the small photo icons and you will see some of the formations that are quite stunning and unusual.

NATIONAL PARKS ORG on Aggtelek  Again more photos and information.  This site features National Parks all over the world.

Excerpt: Aggtelek is also rich in cultural heritage featuring a number of castles, palaces, forts, museums...  The terrain above ground is also exciting, serving as habitat for a variety of wildlife species.... gray wolf, Eurasian lynx, red deer, wild boar...  imperial eagle, saker falcon, kingfisher... birds...

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PANNONHALMA ARCH-ABBY : OVER 1000 YEARS OLD - SAINT MARTIN : WONDERFUL PLACES IN HUNGARY #13

 Over 1000 years? 

 

WIKKIMEDIA COMMONS

WHC _ UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE _ BENEDICTINE ABBEY of PANNONHALMA

Excerpt: The monastery of the Benedictine Order at Pannonhalma, funded in 996 and gently dominating the Pannonian landscape in western Hungary, had a major role in the diffusion of Christianity in medieval Central Europe. The Archabbey of Pannonhalma and its environment (the monastic complex, the Basilcia, Educational Buildings, the Chapel of Our Lady, the Millennium Chapel, the botanical and herbal gardens) outstandingly exemplifies the characteristic location, landscape connections, original structure, design and thousand year history of a Benedictine monastery.  The community of monks still functions today on the basis of the Rule of St. Benedict, and sustains with a unique continuity one of the living centres of European culture.

The present church, the building of which began in 1224, is the third on the site; it contains remains of its predecessors.  The elevated three-aisled choir, the oldest part of the building, overlies a similarly three-aisled crypt, probably an element of the earlier church on the site.

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BARDEJOV - A MEDIEVAL TOWN

UNESCO LINK TO BARDEJOV MEDIEVAL TOWN  full site

Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve : SOME EXCERPTS

Bardejov is a small but exceptionally complete and well-preserved example of a fortified medieval town, which typifies the urbanisation in this region. Among other remarkable features, it also contains a small Jewish quarter around a fine 18th-century synagogue."


The Town Hall was built in 1505-9, the first building in Slovakia with Renaissance stone moulding. The public buildings include the late Gothic Humanistic Grammar School, built on the site of a medieval school, modified in Renaissance style and again in classical style. The municipal wine house of the early 15th century was a storehouse for wines from the vicinity of the town and from the Tokai region. The burghers' houses on their deep narrow plots have undergone many modifications as the result of repeated fires. This type of building was introduced by German traders from Silesia in the early 13th century. The Renaissance saw the addition of ornate facades to the two-storey merchants' houses, converting them into luxurious houses. The most significant Jewish element in Bardejov is the Great Synagogue, built in 1725-47. The complex also contains ritual baths, a kosher slaughterhouse and a meeting building, now a school.

From the first quarter of the 18th century, Slovaks and Hassidic Jews came into Bardejov in large numbers. The burghers' houses were rebuilt or modified in keeping with current architectural fashion, a Jewish quarter with a synagogue, slaughterhouse, and ritual baths developed in the north-western suburbs, and new churches and bridges were built.

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