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croisbeauty Says: .........Nikola Subic Zrinski belonged to a famous and very significant Croatian noble family who ruled in the most part of Croatia......
croisbeauty Says: ....... The castle of Sziget has been known all over Europe since 1566, when the castle and its heroic commander Nikola Subic Zrinski (Miklos Zrinyi as the Hungarians spell his name), together with his Croatian and Hungarian soldiers became the symbol of fight against the...
croisbeauty Says: ........ At the same time, a smallsized retangular castle with high brisk walls was built in the territory of the north-west bastion yard of today's castle..........
croisbeauty Says: The settlement was founded in the 14th century, exactly on that place which is the centre of today's town.........
Zrinyi Castle - the statue of N.S.Zrinski
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wojsyl Says: I'd rather stay in Pecs and visit Szigetvar from there
croisbeauty Says: On the second thought, this could be the eguipment from the end of the 19th century, and that is more likely.
croisbeauty Says: Unfortunatelly there are no written indications about this exibits
croisbeauty Says: In front of the local Fire Department building, there is an exibition of the equipment from the beginning of the past century.
croisbeauty Says: The statue of Tinodi Lantos stands right in front of the entrance of Zrinyi Castle, opposite to the Millenium monument. In some way this character must have been connected with the glorious battle against the Turks in 1566, but I couldn't get any info in this regard.
croisbeauty Says: The Millenium "thumb" monument stands rigt in front of the entrance in the Zrinyi Castle.
croisbeauty Says: The statues of the two excellent generals and opponents stood now side by side after four centuries. Both statues are the work of Metin Yurdanur, Turkish artist.
croisbeauty Says: The Park of Hungarian -Turkish Friendship was created in 1994, with the financial contribution of the Republic of Turkey. On the spot of the park stood the tent of Suleyman I, the greatest ruler of the Ottomans empire when he besieged the fortress of Sziget in 1566.
croisbeauty Says: Opposite of the Town Hall and St. Rocus Parish Church, on the Zrinyi Square, stands this attractive building with department stores on a ground floor and the local bank office on the first floor.
croisbeauty Says: The church, Plebaniatemplom, is of a very unusual type and it worth to see. Actually, it was the Mosque of Pasha Ali built in 1589, a monument of the Turkish architecture of the time. Today it is a Baroque-style Roman Catholic parish church with bellfray added on the top of...
croisbeauty Says: The Town Hall is situated on the Main Square, opposite of the parish church of Szigetvar, and just about 200 meters from Zrinyi Castle which is situated north of the town centre. In front of the Town Hall stands posterity with the lion figure on the top of it, representing...
croisbeauty Says: The small town of Szigetvar, so rich in historical assosiations for Hungarians, was built on a small island formed and surrounded by the Almas brook.This town has been a symbol of self-sacrificing patriotism since the Turkish invasion of 1566. The heroic defenders of the...
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The statues of the two excellent generals and opponents stood now side by side after four centuries. Both statues are the work of Metin Yurdanur, Turkish...
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Szigetvar is a small town with only 12000 inhabitants situate about 30 km west of the town of Pecs. What makes this place worth to see, it is the glorious history, and in particularly wide world well...
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A historical city both for Turks and Hungarians
In 1994, by creating this park on the 500th anniversary of Sultan Süleyman's Birth, the Republic of Turkey commemorated one of the greatest politicians of the Turks. In 1997, Turkey also donated a...
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