Szenna
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Szenna is a village in Somogy county, Hungary
. Around 1715, the area was the possession of the Esterhazy family.
In the village centre is the Szenna Open Air Museum, which won the Europa Nostra
award in 1982.
The local elementary school named after Laszlo Fekete.
A local tradition in Szenna, taking place around Easter and dating back to around the 2nd century AD (and during a pre-Christian time in Hungarian tribes), is called the "watering of the girls", a fertility ritual where boys throw buckets of water of young girls running past them.
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...
. Around 1715, the area was the possession of the Esterhazy family.
In the village centre is the Szenna Open Air Museum, which won the Europa Nostra
Europa Nostra
Europa Nostra, the pan-European Federation for Cultural Heritage, is the representative platform of 250 heritage NGOs active in 45 countries across Europe...
award in 1982.
The local elementary school named after Laszlo Fekete.
A local tradition in Szenna, taking place around Easter and dating back to around the 2nd century AD (and during a pre-Christian time in Hungarian tribes), is called the "watering of the girls", a fertility ritual where boys throw buckets of water of young girls running past them.