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Vlach seminar

Building, structure

Next to the parish house there is an old-looking, narrow, two-story building, which is now a deficientia, i.e. a resting place for the deceased priests of the Archdiocese of Esztergom. It has been serving this purpose since 1619. Before that, it was a seminary and the oldest in o... Read More

Statue of Saint Adalbert on Holy Saturday

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

In front of the St. Nicholas Church in Nagyszombat, there are large statues of two bishops, St. Adalbert and St. Nicholas. ; The veneration of St. Adalbert is as old as the Hungarian state. Adalbert is the patron saint of the Archdiocese of Esztergom, to which Nagyszombat also be... Read More

Statue of Saint Nicholas in Nagysombat

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

In front of the St. Nicholas Cathedral in Nagyszombat, there are large statues of two bishops, St. Adalbert and St. Nicholas. Between 1543 and 1820, Nagyszombat was the seat of the Diocese of Esztergom. During this period, the cathedral functioned as the "main church" of the dioc... Read More

The Ursuline nuns' building complex in Nagyszombat

Building, structure

In Nagy Lajos Street and in Simor Street, which runs at a right angle to it, there is a large group of buildings of the nuns of the Order of St. Ursula, which consists of a church, a monastery, a boarding school and 3 very popular schools. This female order came to the city from ... Read More

Nagyszombat Town Tower

Building, structure

This huge (57 meters) square tower was built in 1574 and cost 4690 gold forints. It only served as a fire tower from 1688, when a permanent residence was built for the tower keeper. The roof burned down in the great fire of 1683 and was rebuilt. The tower clock was built in 1729,... Read More

St. Joseph's Column in Nagyszombat

Sacral small monument

The Baroque sculptural ensemble stands on the square in front of the St. Nicholas Cathedral. It was erected in 1731 in gratitude for the end of the great plague epidemic that devastated the city in 1729-30, which spread not only in Nagyszombat, but almost throughout Europe. The c... Read More

The grave of Dr. Antal Párkány

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

Dr. Antal Párkány (* 16 Sept. 1927, Galánta, † 1 Nov. 2008, Szenc) was a high school teacher, textbook author and translator. He obtained a teaching certificate from the Pedagogical College in Bratislava in 1951–1956, and a doctorate in humanities from the Comenius University in ... Read More

Large ceiling statue of Saint Florian

Sacral small monument

In 1873, during the threshing season, a large fire destroyed a quarter of the village. Ferenc Mikóczi and his wife had a statue of St. Florian erected in gratitude for their escape from the fire. The statue, which was broken in a car accident in 1978, was renovated at the expense... Read More

The Esterházy funeral chapel in Galanta

Cemeteries, tombstones, graves

József Esterházy's grand plans to restore the family significance of Galánta and to ensure its succession were thwarted by cruel fate: his daughters, Mária (1827–1833) and Gizella (1837–1852) fell victim to epidemic diseases as children, and his son Géza (1834–1870) passed away f... Read More

Synagogue status quo ante in Nagyszombat

Building, structure

One of the oldest Jewish communities in Hungary settled in medieval Nagyszombat in the 14th century, but they were banned from the city from the 15th century and were only allowed to return in the 18th century. In the city center, there are also two synagogues built in the 19th c... Read More