Siklós

Siklos [ ʃiklo ː ʃ ] ( German Sieglos, Siklos Croatian, Serbian Шиклош ) is a town of nearly 10,000 inhabitants ( as of 2011) in southern Hungary in Transdanubia Baranya county. It is the economic, cultural and administrative center of the small area of the same name.

Geographical Location

The city is located 31 km south of the city of Pécs on the southern slopes of the Villány Mountains ( Villányi hegység ), which deals with some peaks ( Tenkes 408 m, Szársomlyó 442 m) rises about 300 m above the surrounding Draubecken ( Drávamedence ).

Monuments

The most important monument of the city is the castle, which was first mentioned in documents in 1294. The castle Siklos (see also Vár ) is one of the best preserved historic buildings in the country; her almost all eras of architectural history can be observed: from the Romanesque and Gothic to Baroque. The most beautiful parts of the bay window on the south facade and the castle chapel, is buried in the Count Batthyány Kázmér, the foreign ministers of the Kossuth government. Another noteworthy aspect is the Castle Museum.

In the Castle Garden is a statue of the former castle mistress Dorottya Kanizsay that made bury the dead of the lossy Battle of Mohács against the Turks. The restored mosque of the Bey 1994 MALKOC received the Europa Nostra Prize. The Serbian Orthodox Church, with its iconostasis can also be visited.

For his pilgrimages famous is the Baroque Franciscan church of Siklos - Máriagyűd with her still Gothic choir. Its history can be traced to the time of the Romans traced. In 1800, Pope Pius VII Máriagyűd has officially recognized as a place of pilgrimage.

The parish church of Siklos and be available to them then, built in the Middle Ages monastery on the southeast slope of the castle hill. The monastery is now a ceramic workshop with the o a permanent exhibition. The parish church was built shortly after 1300 for the Augustinian Canons and went after some remodeling and the Turkish wars to the Franciscans. Recently, some murals were restored, of which my experts, they are the highest-ranking quality of the currently known Gothic frescoes both in their entirety and in the fineness of their individual details. In the choir of the parish church of the tomb of the Palatine Miklós Gara is seeing red marble.

Others

In addition to a museum for local history Siklos still has a city gallery and a ceramic workshop on because porcelain production is in the Baranya region has long been an important industry.

Further, in Siklos a beach. The city is the center of the wine route Villány- Siklos.

The area of Siklos is setting for the novel Captain Tenkes Ferenc Örsi ( 1927-1994 ). In 1963 he was also filmed here.

Environment

Larger towns of the area are:

• Within 10 miles: Harkány, Nagyharsány, Túrony, Villány, Vokány.
• Within 25 miles: Bóly, Nagynyárád, Pellerd, Újpetre, Palkonya and beyond the river Drava - already in Croatia - Donji Miholjac and Valpovo