Our Tiszasziget

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Tiszasziget, the lowest place in Hungary

Why Tiszasziget? Because the town in the vicinity of Szeged has surprisingly much to see. What are these? Excavations at the clay-mine, and a 6000-year-old unearthed stilt house prove the long historical tradition of the town. Horseback riding in an English-Hungarian bilingual riding school, intensive riding courses, cross-country riding, riding trips and pony-cart. Touring, hiking trails, “Téry Ödön” Memorial Route. Térvár Cart Museum. Excursions by bike on the bank of the River Tisza and the cycle path of Szeged-Szabadka. Sighthound lure coursing trials and competitions. Small game hunting. Archery, archers’ meetings, traditional archery. Fishing in three fish ponds, fishing contests. Folk monument windmill. Program house. Meal and accommodation on the spot.

Sighthound competition

Tiszasziget offers spectacular sighthound coursings. Tourist groups may order a demonstration coursing or may watch the coursing competitions held on fixed dates. In lure coursing sighthounds chase a mechanically operated artificial lure, which resembles a hare and is moved in zigzags for hundreds of metres. Nobody who has ever seen a sprinting sighthound, will forget the fascinating sight of bursting energy and dynamism.

Lowest Point Monument

A wooden grave marker was erected in 1984, to symbolize the lowest point of elevation in Hungary at 75.8 metres above sea level. Since then, the Lowest Point Monument has been supplemented with a thatched hut, a cart, a draw well, a terracotta sculpture, wooden benches and tables, a bicycle stand, and a sanitary building. The terracotta statue imitates the pattern of dried soil characteristic of the Tisza floodplain. Thus, the central ring focusing on the imaginary lowest point of Hungary is situated in a natural environment.

6000-year-old memories

Relicts of an ancient settlement have been uncovered by scientists of the Móra Ferenc Museum, Szeged. The settlement had been inhabited by the so-called Gorzsa Group, who lived in the New Stone Age, and was excavated in the clay-mine in the southern part of Tiszasziget. The most significant finding is the fragment of a long stilt house. Other relicts found in the large clay-holes around the stilt house give insight into the beliefs of Neolithic people. The careful analysis of the unearthed remnants reveals the everyday life of the late Neolithic man.

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