Coloured houses
Around the square.
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The Main Square, or Fő tér, is the heart of the riverside town of Szentendre in Pest County, between Budapest and the Pilis-Visegrád hills. It lies about 19 km in a straight line from central Budapest, making it a popular outing from the capital. Szentendre is known for its museums, galleries and artists, including the Hungarian Open-Air Museum of rural architecture. After the 17th century settlers from many peoples, many of them Serbs, made it prosperous, and that prosperity shows in its Baroque houses, Mediterranean feel and narrow cobbled lanes. Its name, from «Saint Andrew», appears in a document from 1146. The triangular square is ringed by Baroque houses painted yellow, red, pink and green, with tiled roofs and white windows, around trimmed trees and a wrought-iron memorial column. A yellow Baroque church tower with a green top rises over the square, and narrow cobbled lanes lead down to the Danube bank. Visitors arrive by suburban train from Budapest or by boat on the Danube in summer. The town is small and can be explored on foot in half a day.
Around the square.
Down to the Danube.
And galleries.
Fő tér, Szentendre, Pest County, Hungary
Suburban train from Budapest, or boat in summer.
Half a day.