Castles in Beregsurány Traditional Cache
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We would like to invitate you to a traditional Hungarian village. Please walk, and take some photos. You can find two very nice castle here. The Cache is a magnetic bolt geocache container. The password is necessary only for the site Geocaching.hu. No space for trackable items.
Beregsurany can be reached through the road 4127, laying on the northern side of the international Hungarian-Ukrainian border crossing point, about 70km far from Nyíregyháza, the center of the county. One sight, the art relic reformed church can be found under Rakoczi street 2. According to the first notes from 1299, it was probably a wooden church, since the current one was built from stones in the second half of the 14th century. The main room and the much lower, groined cross vaulted sanctuary is built in gothic style, to the edges of the sanctum, two-divided pillars are leaning from outside. In the western room wooden balcony can be found, above the peaked triumphal arch the year 1715 can be read. Under the lime coating of the northern wall, murals from the middle-ages are hiding. The sitting chamber arise from the 14th century, the furnitures, including the stone pulpit with grawen louder originates from the 18th century, with demotic baroque decorations. The church was renovated in 1715 and 1779, in 1828, judge Karoly Bay had made build the charnel-house of the family, just in front of the chairs of the patrons. The tower of the church and the building afore it, comes from the 19thcentury. On the uppermost floor of the three storeyed tower four arch-type window can be found. The cap with clock shelf has shuttered windowlets on each side of it. On the left side of the road going through the settlement, under Arpad street 115, nice sight is waiting for foreigners. The sometime Bay-castle is one of the rare art-relic barque mansions of the Bereg county. Based on its style-marks, the garrett-roofed mansion standing on high footing was built in the end of the 18th century, or beginning of the 19th century. Probably the family Bay had made build it. In Surany they had a wooden mension already in the third third of the 17th century. For a long time, the kindergarden of the local government was operating in it. In 2006, it went through a full renovation, currently it is standing empty. Under Rakoczi street 1., in a large park can be seen the arc-relic sometime Uray-castle. The building was made built by the family Uray in the middle of the 19th century. The one-storied building has portico closed with tympanum on both the front and garden side frontage. Its exterior and interios is also simple with romanthic details. It is the propriety of the local government, currently the mayor's office is operating in it. The memorial of World War II. can be seen in the park of the Uray-castle, (which is called today Bárókert). In the village a private collection of local history can be found.
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