Horváth M. Ferenc (szerk.): Vác The heart of the Danube Bend. A historical guide for residents and globetrotters (Vác, 2009)

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today it is the exhibition place of the works of the world-famous ceramist Margit Kovács • three-storey Baroque building of the Town Hall looking onto three streets (c. 1730, rebuilt and extended in 1924) • Roman Catholic parish church originally built in Gothic, later rebuilt in Baroque style (18th century), with fragments of medieval wall-paintings on its sides, and Baroque furnishing • Baroque Orthodox episcopal cathedral (1756-1764) surrounded by a stone wall, with a special Rococo portal (made by Márton Ginesser in 1772) and Rococo-style gilded iconostasis • Serbian Orthodox Ecclesiastical History Collection

• Mátyás Ráby's double house with a common backyard, built for an extended family (zadruga). It has a stone-framed gate with a bunch of grapes and the date of 1768 on the keystone • reconstructed building of the mill in Bogdányi Street, today used as Arts Gallery • Preobrazsenszka Church (1741-1746) built by rich Bosnian Serbs working as tanners ("tobakos") • the cross of the tanners on Szamár Hill (second half of the 18th century) • Open-air Ethnographic Museum Programmes: Summer in Szentendre • open-air theatrical performances • concerts • Szentendre Open Around the Clock • St Márton/Martin New Wine Festival

Seal of the town of Szentendre