Pécsvárad (german: Petschwar; hr, Pečvar) is a town in
Baranya County
Baranya ( hu, Baranya megye, ) is a county () in southern Hungary. It is part of the Southern Transdanubia statistical region and the historical Baranya region, which was a county (''comitatus'') in the Kingdom of Hungary dating back to the ...
,
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
.
Notable landmarks
Among the most significant Hungarian heritage from the Middle Ages is the castle built on a Benedictine monastery commissioned by
King St Stephen. The building complex is now used as a museum and a hotel.
Twin towns – sister cities
Pécsvárad is
twinned with:
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Hausmannstätten
Hausmannstätten is a municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria
Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With ...
, Austria
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Jur nad Hronom, Slovakia
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Külsheim
Külsheim is a town in the Main-Tauber district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 12 km northwest of Tauberbischofsheim, and 10 km south of Wertheim am Main.
Town districts (former independent municipalities)
* Külshei ...
, Germany
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Pannonhalma
Pannonhalma (german: Martinsberg; sk, Rábsky Svätý Martin) is a town in Győr-Moson-Sopron County, western Hungary, with approximately 4,000 inhabitants. It is about from Győr. Archduke Otto Habsburg's heart is kept at the Pannonhalma Archa ...
, Hungary
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Satu Mare, Romania
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Unterschleißheim, Germany
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Velyki Berehy, Ukraine
Notable people
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Endre Nemes (1909–1985), artist
Gallery
File:CivertanPecsvarad2.jpg
File:CivertanPecsvarad.jpg
File:CivertanPécsvárad1.JPG
References
External links
* in Hungarian
Aerial photography: Pécsvárad
Populated places in Baranya County
Romanesque architecture in Hungary
Hungarian German communities
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