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Anna-Ámos Collection
Bogdányi utca, Szentendre's busiest pedestrian street, leads north from Fő tér, where you'll find the excellent Anna-Ámos Collection, displaying the symbolist paintings of husband-and-wife team Margit Anna and Imre Ámos.
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ArtMill
Housed in a 19th-century industrial complex at the northern end of Bogdányi utca is the ArtMill, Szentendre's bid to recapture its past as a serious centre for artists and the arts. Its extensive exhibition space is used for paintings, sculpture, graphics and applied arts, and its grounds are possibly the quietest spot in the touristy centre.
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Barcsay Collection
The Barcsay Collection contains the work of one of the founders of Szentendre's art colony, Jenő Barcsay (1900-88).
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Belgrade Cathedral
Just north of Castle Hill you'll notice the red tower of Belgrade Cathedral, completed in 1764 and seat of the Serbian Orthodox bishop in Hungary.
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Blagoveštenska Church
Fő tér's highlight is the Blagoveštenska Church, built in 1754. The church, with fine baroque and rococo elements, hardly looks 'eastern' from the outside, but the inside gives the game away. The small but powerful nave is lined with an ornate iconostasis and elaborate 18th-century furnishings. It is quite a sight to behold.
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Czóbel Museum
The Czóbel Museum contains the works of the impressionist Béla Czóbel (1883-1976), a friend of Pablo Picasso and student of Henri Matisse.
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Ferenczy Museum
The Ferenczy Museum is devoted to Károly Ferenczy (1862-1917), the father of plein-air painting in Hungary, and his three children: a painter, a sculptor and a weaver.
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Hungarian Open-Air Ethnographical Museum
The collection of buildings at the Hungarian Open-Air Ethnographical Museum is Hungary's most ambitious skanzen (open-air museum). Situated on a 46-hectare tract of rolling land, the museum was founded in 1967 to introduce urban Hungarians and tourists alike to traditional Magyar culture by bringing bits and pieces of villages, farms and towns to one site.
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Kmetty Museum
The Kmetty Museum on the southwestern side of Fő tér displays the work of the cubist János Kmetty (1889-1975).
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Margit Kovács Ceramic Collection
Descending Görög utca and turning right onto Vastagh György utca, you'll reach the Margit Kovács Ceramic Collection in an 18th-century salt house. Kovács (1902-77) was a ceramicist who combined Hungarian folk, religious and modern themes to create Gothic-like figures. Some of Kovács' works are overly sentimental, but many are very powerful, especially the later ones in which she became obsessed with mortality.
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Memorial Cross
On Fő tér, the colourful heart of Szentendre surrounded by 18th- and 19th-century burghers' houses, you'll find the Memorial Cross, an iron cross dating from 1763 decorated with icons on a marble base.
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Nemzeti Wine Museum
The Nemzeti Wine Museum traces the development of wine-making in Hungary and charges quite a bit more to sample various vintages.
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Pap Island
Pap Island is Szentendre's playground and has a grassy strand for sunbathing, a swimming pool, and tennis courts and rowing boats for hire.
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Parish Church of St John
The walled Parish Church of St John at Castle Hill (Vár-domb) is all that's left of the site of a fortress built in the Middle Ages. It can be reached via Váralja lépcső, the narrow steps between Fő tér 8 and 9. Unfortunately the church entrance (which is early Gothic) is often locked, but you can peer through the bars at the frescoes which were painted by members of the artists' colony in the 1930s. You get splendid views of the town from the church.
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Požarevačka Church
A good starting point on your tour of Szentendre is the Požarevačka Church, which you'll pass on the way from the stations. Dedicated in 1763, this Serbian Orthodox church has a lovely iconostasis inside (1742).
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Serbian Ecclesiastical Art Collection
One of the church buildings beside Belgrade Cathedral now contains the Serbian Ecclesiastical Art Collection, a treasure trove of icons, vestments and other sacred objects in precious metals. A 14th-century glass painting of the crucifixion is the oldest item on display; a 'cotton icon' of the life of Christ from the 18th century is unusual.
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Sts Peter and Paul Church
The Sts Peter and Paul Church began life as the Čiprovačka Orthodox Church in 1753, but was later taken over by Dalmatian Catholics.
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