Szentendre

A colourful small town just north of Budapest, built largely by Serbian and other Balkan settlers in the eighteenth century and known since the 1920s for its artists' colony. Narrow lanes, Orthodox church towers, galleries and museums make it an easy half-day, usually reached by coach from Budapest.

Good to know

• Its Mediterranean townscape was created by Serbian, Dalmatian and Greek settlers in the eighteenth century.
• The Szentendre Artists' Colony was founded in 1926.
• The Hungarian Open Air Ethnographic Museum (Skanzen) is on the edge of the town.