Szentendre

Szentendre is a Hungarian city department of Pest, close to the town of Budapest.

Szentendre is famous for its museums, art galleries and artists. Because of its picturesque character and accessibility per rail and river, it quickly became a destination very appraisal of the tourists visiting Budapest, and there are of this fact a very great number of shops and restaurants counting only on the foreign tourists.

Populated since good more than one millenium, it was called Ulcisia Castra (the castle of the wolves) during the Roman occupation . During the Years 1500, it became the center of the Serb community of Hungary.

In the Years 1700, after the release acquired on the Turks, Szentendre knew a strong immigration coming from the Balkans, mainly of Serbia, Dalmatie, Greece, as well as Slovakia and of Germany, which was melted in the mass of the autochtones Magyars. According to the statistics of 1720, 88% of the inhabitants of Szentendre were Slaves South, mainly of the Serbes. Szentendre remains today still a “small piece of Serbia” where reign a Mediterranean atmosphere with an architecture mainly Baroque, narrow and paved streets, churches of all confessions.

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