Hidden Gems of Hungary – thousand year old villages

In these little villages, tradition lives on. Some of them are almost a thousand years old. The Great Plain has the kind of romanticism that inspired many great poets and writers and now Femina.hu collected some truly unique places to show us.

Most people think of Hortobágy when they hear the phrase Great Hungarian Plain, imagining the whip-cracking horsemen. But if you travel a bit north from there, you could see villages that are just as interesting in a different manner.

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These villages from the Great Northern Plain still retain parts of our culture from hundreds of years ago. There are murals that were painted 800 years ago, churches with wood shingles, wood headstones in cemeteries. These are all beautiful on their own, but together they are absolutely amazing.

Csaroda

Csaroda is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. The name Csaroda was first mentioned in 1299. It got its name from a river, the Cierna Voda, meaning black water.

Csaroda is a Romanesque village, with a 13th century Reformed Church. The church spire is made of wooden shingles. Inside the church you can see the 14th century Gothic frescoes. From the original painting that depicted the 12 Apostles, you can still see 6, in good condition. An old wooden bell-tower from the 13th century stands at the church.

One of the most remarkable things about this village are the wattle houses: wooden strips are woven together then covered with mud plaster, this forms the wall of the houses.

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