Dear Visitor,

Let me invite you to a virtual trip around the historic Szatmár region, to the area that hides several treasure for the tourists. On the plains of Szatmár - with its dense water streams - throughout the history a settlement system of many small villages emerged. The extreme geographic conditions, the devastating floods, the constant inland inundation preserved not only the settlement system, but the customs of the local community the architectural and natural heritage in an unmatchable richness to be visible for the posterity. This area bordered by waters preserved its unique atmosphere and medieval buildings. As a consequence of the poverty and isolation special architecture styles evolved here that can be seen especially on churches. The atmosphere of the medieval churches of the historic Szatmár can be felt in the small churches with the wooden bell towers near them, the richly decorated coffered ceilings, painted galleries, carved ornate pulpits.

With the support of the Hungary-Romania Cross Border Cooperation Program 2007-2013, with the cooperation of the County Adminstrative Board of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg and the County Council of Szatmár a historic route was born. The route titled „The route of medieval churches in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg and Szatmár counties” presents its visitors with its outstanding religious and cultural heritage with twenty churches in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg and ten churches in Szatmár county. The Hungarian side of the route consists of Cégénydányád, Csenger, Csengersima, Fehérgyarmat, Gacsály, Gyügye, Jánkmajtis, Kisszekeres, Kölcse, Nagyar, Nagygéc, Nagyszekeres, Sonkád, Szamosbecs, Szamosújlak, Szamostatárfalva, Tiszakóród, Túristvándi, Túrricse, Vámosoroszi while on the Romanian side are Acâş, Negreşti-Oaş, Bixad, Agriş, Ardud, Căpleni, Livada Mică, Corund, Tăşnad, Vetiş.

The inquirers who pay a visit to this site can get a taste of this outstanding cultural heritage and as we hope might take a fancy to personally make a trip to the route. Our objective is to entertain you in this area and to make it possible for the visitors to get to know the medieval heritage that the rural communities and the parishes left for the posterity in the townships of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg and Szatmár.