EC awards Szentendre European Heritage Label
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The Hungarian town of Szentendre is one of the ten recipients of the European Commission’s European Heritage Label, a distinction granted to sites with a significance in the history, culture and development of Europe, this year, under the commission’s decision announced on Tuesday.
Mariya Gabriel, the EC Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, said in a statement:
“I warmly congratulate the ten new sites we have awarded with the European Heritage Label today. They all provide great opportunities for European citizens to connect with their cultural heritage and strengthen their sense of belonging to the European Union.”
Noting the town’s origins in the Roman times, the EC said about Szentendre that its character “has been shaped by the influence of the cross-border political and cultural connections”.
Cultural heritage has played a major role in Szentendre’s development and enabled it to serve as a bridge between various cultural regions of the west and east, between the Balkans and the Carpathian Basin, and between Catholic and Orthodox Christianity, the EC said.
La ciudad de Szentendre está ubicada a orillas de un río que es un brazo del Danubio porque este sale del Danubio y luego vuelve al mismo, es interesante ir a este río para ver las compuertas que se colocan a lo largo del río en tiempos de creciente para que no se inunde la ciudad. Es una ciudad muy pintoresca. la plaza principal es bastante pequeña pero a su alrededor hay once iglesia porque todos los que invadían la ciudad querían tener su Iglesia alrededor de la plaza. Está cerca de Budapest y se puede llegar en tren urbano.