Mecseknádasd is a town in Baranya county

Baranya (county)

Baranya is the name of an administrative county in present Hungary, in the Baranya region, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary ....

, Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

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Sightseeings

In the cemetery hill there is an old, Árpád-age Romanesque

Romanesque architecture

Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of Medieval Europe characterised by semi-circular arches. There is no consensus for the beginning date of the Romanesque architecture, with proposals ranging from the 6th to the 10th century. It developed in the 12th century into the Gothic style,...

 church, which was originally the parish church of the village.

In front of the Bishop's Palace is a statue of Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...

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Moreover, the village cultivates the remembrance of Saint Margaret of Scotland

Saint Margaret of Scotland

Saint Margaret of Scotland , also known as Margaret of Wessex and Queen Margaret of Scotland, was an English princess of the House of Wessex. Born in exile in Hungary, she was the sister of Edgar Ætheling, the short-ruling and uncrowned Anglo-Saxon King of England...

. She was the daughter of the English prince Edward the Exile

Edward the Exile

Edward the Exile , also called Edward Ætheling, son of King Edmund Ironside and of Ealdgyth. After the Danish conquest of England in 1016 Canute had him and his brother, Edmund, exiled to the Continent...

, son of Edmund Ironside

Edmund Ironside

Edmund Ironside or Edmund II was king of England from 23 April to 30 November 1016. His cognomen "Ironside" is not recorded until 1057, but may have been contemporary. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it was given to him "because of his valour" in resisting the Danish invasion led by Cnut...

. She was born at Castle Réka

Castle Réka

Castle Réka ; is a ruin in Baranya county, Hungary.Next to Mecseknádasd, towards the opening to Old Mine's Valley , at the hilltop marked with a cross are the ruins of Castle Réka. Both the Scots and the Hungarians consider this castle to have been the birthplace of St Margaret of Scotland. The...

, Mecseknádasd.

External links

• Official side Mecseknádasd