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Fishing
Sport opportunities
Forest of Gemenc
Sárköz
Völgység
Sióagárd-Leányvár
Szekszárd,
city of wine
Museums
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Please find the detailed description of the programmes and leaflets at the reception. Generally you are asked to register at the locations, museums and exhibitions. We indicate an information phone number for each of the programmes where you can make an appointment, but it is our pleasure to help you in organising these programmes. Please inform the reception which programmes are you interested in!
Fishing possibilities:
- Szálkai tó - carp, grass-carp, walleye, catfish
- Sió és sárvíz - carp, pike, walleye, catfish, breams
- River fishing on the Danube at Gerjen and Bogyiszló
- Sötétvölgyi fishing lake
- Holtsió of Keselyűs at the Gemenc forest
- Fadd- Dombori
You can buy daily tickets on the spot or in Szekszárd, at the Tolna County Alliance of Fishing Associations.
Ticket prices: 1200 HUF/day average
Information:
- Horgászegyesületek Tolna Megyei Szövetsége (Alliance of Fishing Associations in Tolna County)
-Szekszárd, Rákóczi u. 46. Telephone: 74/312-593
- Sióagárdi Horgászegyesület (Fishing Association of Sióagárd) (Mátyás Budmicz)
-Sióagárd, Zrínyi u. 15. Telephone: 74/437-774
- Gerjeni Horgászegyesület (Fishing Association of Gerjen) (Zoltán Dömötör)
- Gerjen, Ady u. 1. Telephone: 75/337-07
Water- and other sport possibilities in the region
Fadd-Dombori
Fadd-Dombori, one of the biggest and most beautiful holiday resorts of Tolna county is located 25 kilometres from Szekszárd, at the 14 kilometres long oxbow of the Danube. The water of the oxbow is suitable for bathing, sporting and fishing as well. The popular holiday resort operates free and ticket beaches as well on 7 kilometres. It is an excellent fishing and boating place, the visitors can choose from among kayak-canoe facilities, and rent boats, kayaks, canoes and paddle boats as well.
Szálka
An irregular-shaped aquifer is located at Szálka, which came into being with the closure of the longest northeast-southwest valley of the Szekszárd hills. This lake is the biggest charm of the village where we can find a beach and renting facilities as well.
Bike tours in the region
Please find a detailed bike map and suggested tours at the information desk of the hotel. We suggest you to make tours to the neighbouring villages, in the Gemenc forest and on the hills of Szekszárd.
Flights
You may try several forms of flying with pre-arrangements on the airport of Őcsény, which is located 10 minutes from the castle. Flying with planes for 2 or 4 persons, which show you the picturesque land from the above. Information: 74/496-265
Információ: 74/496-265
The Gemenc forest
The Gemenc forest is a preserved treasure of not only Hungary but Europe as well, which is a part of the Danube- Dráva National Park. The forest is unique with its bushy, river plants which are diversified by clearings, small lakes and oxbows. The luscious plants offer food and shelter for the native animals, for the deer and wild boars.
With the help of WWF the extinct beaver was relocated. Most of the land is flushed by the Danube at high water level, these lands are the territory for the water birds. The forest is easy to discover with a small train, which travels 30 kilometres in the woods where we can see deer and wild boars on the small clearings as well.
The small train starts at the Gemenc Excursion Centre, where small children can stroke pets, the bigger ones can follow the route in the forest and discover the natural treasures of the woods and the traditional farming of the floodplains.
Making a tour in the Gemenc woods with the small train
The train operates daily between May 1 and October 31, and departs at 10:30 and 13:20.
Tour: Excursion Centre of Gemenc Bárányfok - Danube shore - Bárányfok (20 km)
Journey time: 2 hours
Departure and tickets: Excursion Centre of Gemenc - souvenir shop
Ticket ordering and information: 74/312-552, 74/410-151
Ticket prices: adults: 660-HUF, children, students, pensioners: 420- HUF
Excursion by train and boat on the Danube around the woods of Gemenc
Programme:
Departure from Bárányfok at 10:30 with the small train. The participants of this programme continue the trip by boat at the Danube shore of Gemenc and take part in a 2-hours river trip along the Gemenc woods and on the Danube. After the river trip the guests can return to the Gemenc Excursion Centre by scheduled trains.
Registration is needed.
Ticket prices for children 2100-Ft, for adults 2700-Ft
Information: 79/425-356
Excursion by ship from the Gemenc Excursion Centre on the Danube
Departure: Gemenc forest - water gate (close to the Gemenc Excursion Centre)
Ticket purchase and information: Gemenc Excursion Centre - Souvenir Shop
Journey time: cca. 1.15 hours
Information: 74/312-552, 30/420-70-10
"Life on the flood plain" exhibition
An exhibition presenting the natural treasures of the Danube-Dráva National Park and the traditional farming on the floodplain. Located at the terminal of the Gemenc small train at the Gemenc Excursion Centre.
Excursion at Gemenc - the tour of Bárányfok
One of the most well-known study paths of Gemenc starts close to Szekszárd, besides the Gemenc Excursion Centre, at the terminal of the small train which leads the visitors along forest and river habitats. The tables introduce the history of the floodplain, the protected values of the flora and fauna and the specific characteristics of the traditional floodplain farming.
There are several other excursion possibilities and study paths in the Gemenc forest, please find further detailed information at the information desk of the hotel or in the Gemenc Excursion Centre.
Horse programmes at the Gemenc Excursion Centre
Excursion in the forest by coach.
Registration needed, minimum 4 persons, journey time: cca. 1 hour
Price: 1300 HUF/person
Information: 20/488-1244, 20/510-6777
A Sárköz
The folk costumes of Sárköz
This costume has the oldest form, the most ornaments and made of the most expensive materials among the Hungarian folk costumes. The skirts are made of silk and velvet, with rich decorations. The women of Sárköz have always been leaders in forming and embroidering, we can find every style, technique and ornaments. The people of Sárköz have adopted the effects of the genteel fashion, the weavers and the neighbouring peoples and assimilated these individually. At the same time their costumes remained a typical peasant clothing: it differed according to gender, age and marital status and adjusted to the different seasons, work and holidays.
The dresses of men were not different from that of the country, it changed more slowly and for the turn of the century it became urbanised.
The girls received a new dress every holy communion (six times a year). The richest families had even 20 dresses. These women expressed their wealth by their dresses, which included expensive materials and decorations. The ornaments depended on the material of the dress. Silk was brought from Lyon, France, the pearls and headdresses from Bohemia.
The settlements of Sárköz
The regional house of Decs
The collection presenting the traditional furniture of Sárköz can be seen in an old, white, porch house. The collection includes a clean room furnished with carved and coloured furniture and homespun, a kitchen with a free chimney and unglazed and glazed ceramic pots, and the visitors can observe an operating loom besides the window in the living room. The other rooms show the folk dresses and different homespun and embroidered textiles, which are typical of the close neighbourhood.
Ethnical and folk art collection of Sárköz
Decs, Kossuth L. utca 36.
Information: 30/4190033
Doll museum, Decs
A collection presenting the traditions, practices and the folk art of Sárköz on dolls.
A lady called Mrs. László Farkas, Pál Bözsi néni, a folk artist of Decs prepared the folk costumes of these dolls, installed in different life situations, with proportional size personal articles. Besides these we can find several full, original folk costumes, Easter eggs decorated with traditional motives, painted furniture, coloured folk ceramics, which all were prepared by Bözsi néni. The auntie tells the visitors what they should know about these articles, how people lived in the village earlier, what they worked, how they dressed, entertained themselves.
The adults and children as well can dress in folk costumes and make photos.
Decs, Kossuth L. u. 8.
Information: 74/495734
Excursion to Báta
Báta, which is a more than 2000 years old settlement at the southern part of Sárköz welcomes its visitors.
János Czencz memorial house and museum and the egg-painting workshop of her daughter, Mrs Marietta Huszák Czencz
Information: 74/490-704, 20/528-6289
Szent Vér Templom (Church of the Saint Blood)
Presenting the more than 900 years old Church of the Saint Blood and its history with registration in advance.
Information: 74/460-795, 69/335-020
Regional house, folk house, folk art of Báta and weaving
Information: 74/490-558
A Völgység
Völgység is the popular name of this region. We only have written sources of using this name since the end of the 17th century. Before this era, in the Turkish years this huge territory belonged to the castle of Szászvár. After the expulsion of the Turks the settlements belonging to the castle of Mecseknádasd were called the district of Nádasd. The small Bonyhád (Bohman, Bachnyám, Bonyhan, and then Bonyha) has been a market town since the Middle Ages, where people could cross the marshland in the directions north-south and east-west.
The administrative borders have changed in the last 250 years, so the official and the popular borders have always been different. The historical Völgység is only a historical-ethnical concept. It is bordered by streams and waters: Hidasi-water running at Tevel, the stream of Völgység at Bonyhád, Hábi channel in the Hegyhát region of Baranya County, and Kapos river in the west.
The region was characterised by Hungarian, Kraut, Serb and Jewish populations and cultures for centuries until the end of the Second World War. These populations and the relocation of the Transylvanians are present in the architectural monuments and folk traditions of the region as well.
Museum of Völgység
Besides the traditional exhibitions, presentations and museum club several other programmes like book presentations, temporary exhibitions, and crafts workshops can be attended.
Opening hours:
July- August: Tuesday-Saturday 10-16
September-July: Tuesday-Friday 10-16
Address: 7150, Bonyhád, Szabadság tér 2.
Information: 74/451-342
Grábóc
Serb orthodox church and monastery from the 17th century
The one and only remaining Serb orthodox monastery church of the country was built between 1736-41, in Baroque style. The tower was finished in 1761. The iconostase was painted by Vaszilie Osztójity in 1768.
The wall pictures of the church and the stuccos were prepared in Baroque style at the end of the 18th century: the frescos were painted in 1784-85 with the leadership of Andrej Saltist. The contemporary furnishings - two side-altars, the bishop’s chair, the prebends and the chairs were also prepared in Baroque style.
A relic of Saint Borbála is kept here.
In 1994 the Serb church got back the church and the monastery which was operating as a social home.
The Serb orthodox monastery in front of the church was built in 1787 in Baroque style. Its façade was transformed and later restored between 1981 and 1987. The significance of the Serb monastery of Grábóc grew far beyond the borders of the county. It was the spiritual and religious centre of all the Serbs in the Carpathian Basin. It was founded in 1585, and it operated continuously until 1974 (excluding some years of war), the death of the last monk. The monastery is a significant work of art as well.
The monastery is operating again, for some years Serb nuns have been living there, sisters Krisztina and Mária who present the church as well.
Sióagárd-Leányvár
Sióagárd is located at the junction of Sárköz and the hills of Szekszárd. The settlement has a special folk costume, which is worn by the local people during holidays. The cellar village, Leányvár next to the settlement is waiting for the visitors with more than 300 cellars. You can find nice workshops presenting the folk crafts.
Information: Sióagárd regional house - phone: 74/437-314
Excursion to Szekszárd
"Szekszárd has been the town of wines for 2000 years"
The sights of Szekszárd can be visited on foot. The heart of the town is called Béla tér (Béla square), where we can find a church built in 1805 in Copf style, which is the biggest single nave church in Central Europe. Carillon can be heard three times a day. In front of the church there is a statue remembering the plague epidemic (Szentháromság szobor).
The square is bordered by the Town Hall from the west and the old County Hall from the east. The classicist building was planned by Mihály Pollack, it was built in 1836. The inner court presents the ruins of the monastery founded by King Béla I. in 1061, which are surrounded by monastic quarters and a castle. The decorated Wine Fountain can be found in the outer court of the building, from which wine flows at times of important holidays.
Some minutes of walking takes us to the birth house of Mihály Babits, the Hungarian poet (Babits u.13.), where a museum is operating.
Garay square can be reached in a few minutes as well where we can see the statue of János Garay. The poet presented the literature with the figure of János Háry and wrote about Szekszárd wines several times. The German Theatre is one of the most significant buildings of the square where the only German theatre of the country is operating.
The characteristic building of Augusz house is not only an architectural but cultural monument as well (Széchenyi u. 36-40.) which was built by the baron Antal Augusz and visited by Ferenc Liszt 4 times.
The synagogue was rebuilt according to the plans of József Kerényi, where today the exhibitions of contemporary and classical artists and high quality concerts can be attended.
The monumental building of Mór Wosinsky Museum is located near the building. Several permanent and temporary exhibitions can be seen in the museum founded in 1902 by count Sándor Apponyi and parson Mór Wosinsky.
If we have time it is worth to have a look at the hills of Szekszárd from the Observation Tower, which can be reached by a few minutes travel. From here we can see the cultivated vineyards and the small town with its old and new districts.
Museums
"Honey-sweet traditions" - Museum of gingerbread, candies and wax chandlers
Address: Szekszárd, Munkácsy u. 8./a.
Telephone: 74/512-110
Opening hours:
From March 1 to October 31.
Tuesday-Friday: 12-18
Saturday, Sunday: 10-18
(registration is possible)
Museum of Mór Wosinsky
Address: Szekszárd, Szent István tér 26.
Telephone: 74/316-222
Opening hours:
From October 1 to March 31 every day excluding Sundays and Mondays, 10-16
April 1 - September 30. every day excluding Mondays 10-18
Ticket prices: Adults 200,- Ft, pensioners and students 100,- Ft
Free on Saturdays
Permanent exhibitions:
Thousand years of Tolna from ancient times to the settlement of Hungarians
Life changes in Tolna in the 18th-20th centuries
Living pictures. A small town at the turn of the century
Cellar museum exhibitions: archeological and weapon collections
Temporary exhibition:
"Clothes"
"Lands, people, clothing in Tolna county" exhibitions
Memorial House of Mihály Babits
Address: 7100 Szekszárd, Babits u. 13.
Telephone: 74/312-154
Opening hours:
October 1 - March 31 every day excluding Saturdays and Mondays 9-15
April 1 - September 30 every day excluding Mondays 9-17
Ticket prices:
Adults 200,- Ft, pensioners and students 100,- Ft
Free on Saturdays
Permanent exhibition:
- Remembrance of the poet in his birth house, the home of his family.
- Memorial room for Valéria Dienes
Exhibitions at the County Hall
Address: 7100 Szekszárd, Béla király tér 1.
Telephone: 74/419-667
Opening hours:
October 1 - March 31 every day excluding Saturdays and Mondays 9-17
April 1 - September 30 every day excluding Mondays 9-15
Ticket prices:
Adults 200,- Ft, pensioners and students 100,- Ft
Free on Saturdays
Permanent exhibitions:
World of the old county hall
Exhibition for Ferenc Liszt
Paintings and painted stones of Eszter Mattioni
Memorial room for Tamás Esze
Bogár Tanya
On the Szekszárd wine hill we can find this ethnical collection in two buildings, presenting Sárköz in original surroundings. (Open chimney kitchen, clean room of Sárköz, objects of farming).
Prior registration is needed.
Information: 74/413-177, 30/852-0890
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