Szigetvár

Baranya County · Hungary

Szigetvár, Hungary
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April to October
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A southern town centred on a moated brick fortress famous for the 1566 siege against the Ottomans. The castle courtyard, old mosque converted to a church and surviving town gate carry its layered frontier history.

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