Kiszombor is a village

Village

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 in Csongrád

Csongrád

Csongrád is a town in Csongrád County in southern Hungary. Formerly, the city also had the alternate Slavic name of Černigrad, which, like the Hungarian version, means "Black Castle" or "Black Town".-History:...

 county, in the Southern Great Plain

Southern Great Plain

Southern Great Plain is a statistical region of Hungary. It is part of Great Plain and North region. Southern Great Plain includes the 3 counties:* Bács-Kiskun* Békés* Csongrád...

 region

Region

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 of southern Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

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Geography

It covers an area

Area

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 of 65.81 km² (25 sq mi) and has a population

Population

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 of 4210 people (2002).

It is an agricultural village, near the river Maros.
With more than its 750 years history it has some antic buildings, for example the Castle Ronay, and the Rotunda which is a church with circle-shaped sketch. There are some beautiful wall-paintings in Gothic style which were painted in the XIV. century.The church itself was built in Romanesque style in the XIII. century.

There is a border-crossing point into Romania near the village, where the first village is Cenad

Cenad

Cenad is a commune in Timiş County, Banat, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Cenad.-Demography:...

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There is the "Village-festival" at the third weekend of September in every year where lots of Hungarian artists appear: play, sing, dance and so on.
If you're near Kiszombor that time don't forget to drop in.

Sightseeing for visitors

In the village we can see an old architectural heritage from the romanesque art: the church. It consists of two parts. Older is the rotunda built with 6 sections. Younger is, the village church. The rotunda has 2 other relatives of this type in the Carpathian Basin: Gerény and Karcsa

Karcsa

Karcsa is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Hungary.-Sightseeing for visitors:In the village we can see an old architectural heritage from the romanesque art: the church. It consists of two parts. Older is the rotunda built with 6 sections. Younger is, - although of Árpád age - the...

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External references

• Aradi N. (Ed.): A művészet története Magyarországon. (The History of Arts in Hungary). Gondolat, Budapest
• Fülep L. (Ed.): A magyarországi művészet története. (The History of the Hungarian Arts). Budapest
• Gerevich T.: Magyarország románkori emlékei. (Die romanische Denkmäler Ungarns.) Egyetemi nyomda. Budapest, 1938.
• Gerő L. : Magyar műemléki ABC. Budapest, 1984
• Gervers-Molnár, V. (1972): A középkori Magyarország rotundái. (Rotunda in the Medieval Hungary). Akadémiai, Budapest
• Henszlmann, I. (1876): Magyarország ó-keresztyén, román és átmeneti stylü mű-emlékeinek rövid ismertetése, (Old-Christian, Romanesque and Transitional Style Architecture in Hungary). Királyi Magyar Egyetemi Nyomda, Budapest
• Marosi E.: A román kor művészete, (Art of the Romanesque Ages). Corvina, Budapest, 1972, ISBN 9631320006
• Szilágyi A. (2008): A Kárpát-medence Árpád-kori rotundái és centrális templomai. (The Rotunda and Central Building Churches in the Carpathian Basin.) Semmelweis Kiadó, Budapest

See also

Rotunda (architecture)

Rotunda (architecture)

A rotunda is any building with a circular ground plan, sometimes covered by a dome. It can also refer to a round room within a building . The Pantheon in Rome is a famous rotunda. A Band Rotunda is a circular bandstand, usually with a dome...