The project of the Touristic Development of Franciscan Cultural Heritage Sites of the Border Area by the Cooperation of the Two Provinces (MONUMENTIS) (SKHU/1601/1.1/060) – financed by the Interreg V-A Slovakia-Hungary Cooperation Programme – is closed therefore we made a presentation which shows the results of the project about the 4 implamentation sites (Bratislava, Fil’akovo,…
The project of the Touristic Development of Franciscan Cultural Heritage Sites of the Border Area by the Cooperation of the Two Provinces (MONUMENTIS) (SKHU/1601/1.1/060) – financed by the Interreg V-A Slovakia-Hungary Cooperation Programme – is approaching to closure therefore we made a video which presents the results of the project about the 4 implamentation sites…
The construction of the House of Silence has been completed at Mátraverebély-Szentkút National Shrine. The investment is a result of the project MONUMENTIS SKHU/1601/1.1/060 financed by the Interreg V-A Slovakia-Hungary Cooperation Programme. The new facility provides space for silence for the visitors. As a further result of the project, there has also been an open-air,…
As a result of the project Touristic Development of Franciscan Cultural Heritage Sites of the Border Area by the Cooperation of the Two Provinces (MONUMENTIS) (SKHU/1601/1.1/060) -financed by the Interreg V-A Slovakia-Hungary Cooperation Programme – reconstruction works in the Franciscan Church in Szécsény has been completed. The renovation of the sacristy has been finished with…
As a result of the project Touristic Development of Franciscan Cultural Heritage Sites of the Border Area by the Cooperation of the Two Provinces (MONUMENTIS) (SKHU/1601/1.1/060) financed by the Interreg V-A Slovakia-Hungary Cooperation Programme the procession road was re-paved at Mártaverebély-Szentkút Shrine. From now on the processions will become safer and more comfortable for the…
The bilingual exhibition of “Franciscan monastic life today” was opened on October 18th, after the 11 a.m. mass in the reception building of the Mátraverebély-Szentkút Shrine. The travelling exhibition was prepared by Slovakian Franciscans and financed by the Interreg V-A Slovakia-Hungary Cooperation Programme, as a result of the project Touristic Development of Franciscan Cultural Heritage…
The construction of the House of Silence was financed by the Interreg V-A Slovakia-Hungary Cooperation Programme, as a result of the project Touristic Development of Franciscan Cultural Heritage Sites of the Border Area by the Cooperation of the Two Provinces (MONUMENTIS) (SKHU/1601/1.1/060). The contractor has built a retaining wall to protect the House of Silence.…
As a result of the project Touristic Development of Franciscan Cultural Heritage Sites of the Border Area by the Cooperation of the Two Provinces (MONUMENTIS) (SKHU/1601/1.1/060) financed by the Interreg V-A Slovakia-Hungary Cooperation Programme the renovation of the Basilica has been completed in Mátraverebély-Szentkút. Following the restoration of the 3 church gates, further renovation work…
The renovation of the Castle and creation of the new Franciscan order exhibition of the Castle Museum in Fiľakovo were financed by the Interreg V-A Slovakia-Hungary Cooperation Programme, as a result of the project Touristic Development of Franciscan Cultural Heritage Sites of the Border Area by the Cooperation of the Two Provinces (MONUMENTIS) (SKHU/1601/1.1/060). The…
In the frame of the SKHU/1601/1.1/060 MONUMENTIS project the tower of the Franciscan Church of the Annunciation of Virgin Mary in Bratislava was renovated, and a permanent exhibition opened in the temple treasury. The representatives of the Fons Sacer attended the handover event of the Slovakia-Hungary Interreg project on last Thursday in Slovakia. After a…
As a result of the SKHU/1601/1.1/060 MONUMENTIS project on June 25th at 16:00 there will be an inauguration of the restored tower and temple treasury of the Franciscan Church of the Annunciation of Virgin Mary in Bratislava. In addition to a short presentation of the project Monumentis along with a few thank you words of…
Although due to the COVID-19 epidemic situation church service is intermittent, the renovation works did not stop in the Franciscan Church in Szécsény. In the frame of the SKHU/1601/1.1/060 MONUMENTIS project the renovation of the sacristy is still going on with the wall restoration, while in the church the renovation of the pulpit and the…
Multiple sacral objects are being renovated in Szentkút, for example a processional crucifix, a painting of the Holy Family, and the statue of St. John of Nepomuk. The restoration, funded by the MONUMENTIS SKHU/1601/1.1/060 Interreg Slovakia-Hungary project, is being done by Balázs Fabók restorer artist and his team.
As a result of the SKHU/1601/1.1/060 MONUMENTIS project the Szentkút digital guidance system, a state-of-the-art mobile tour guiding application was recently released. The mobile application is free to download from 1st March. The app, available for iOS and Android phones, grants direct contact options and local guidance for the visitors. The multilingual digital guidance system,…
In the frame of the SKHU/1601/1.1/060 MONUMENTIS project the restoration of the Basilica has been started this November. During the work some new stained-glass windows will be made to replace the current windows, which are in bad condition and without thermal insulation; the facade of the church will be coloured and the plinth of the…
In the frame of the SKHU/1601/1.1/060 MONUMENTIS project the restoration of the Franciscan Monastery sacristy has been started this November. The furniture of the sacristy will be shipped to a restoration workshop in Budapest, where it will be restored and cleaned, while the archaeologists are examining the monument of outstanding importance on the spot, in…
On the occasion of the ’Historia Domus’ Conference organized in Mátraverebély-Szentkút in October 2019 a Hungarian-Slovakian bilingual volume briefly resuming the history of the shrine was published and introduced. Meeting the requirements of MONUMENTIS project, its objective was to lay the groundwork for the research on the history of Szentkút to be carried out using…
The restoration of the Calvary Chapel will be finished in 2020. An urn burial ground will also be developed in this Chapel. Two reliefs – which represent Saint Michel and Saint Rafael – will decorate the Chapel. The reliefs created by László Mátyássy sculptor. The sculptures were financed by the Interreg V-A Slovakia-Hungary Cooperation Programme,…
In the church corridor of the Roman Catholic /Franciscan/ Parish in Szécsény an exhibition about the seven Franciscan martyrs’ life has been opened. The exhibition can be viewed until end of January. The aim of this event is to forward the respect of those Franciscan martyrs’ who waiting for their beatification. The seven martyrs gave…
As a result of the project Touristic Development of Franciscan Cultural Heritage Sites of the Border Area by the Cooperation of the Two Provinces (MONUMENTIS) (SKHU/1601/1.1/060) financed by the Interreg V-A Slovakia-Hungary Cooperation Programme three wooden doors of the Basilica have been restored at the National Shrine of Mátraverebély-Szentkút. The oaken doors to the nave…
The History of the National Shrine of Mátraverebély-Szentkút according to the Historia Domus and Other Archival Sources conference has been organized on 17 October 2019 in Mátraverebély-Szentkút in the frame of the SKHU/1601/1.1/060 MONUMENTIS. The conference presented the newest results of the historia domus researches in Szentkút supported by the project for professionals and guests…
In the frame of the SKHU/1601/1.1/060 MONUMENTIS project, the third project management meeting has been held on 23th of September 2019, this time at the Fons Sacer headquarters in Budapest. In a pleasant atmosphere the representatives of Fons Sacer, the Slovakian partner and the project management company discussed the progress and the results of the…
The new reception, supported by the SKHU/1601/1.1/060 MONUMENTIS project, was open for the first time at the Feast of Saint Anne. From now on it will be open during our largest feasts and pilgrimages in order to inform our guests properly.
Research is being done for months now as a preparation for the Historia Domus conference. With the help of colleagues the historian expert of the project is using not only the volumes of the ‘house history’ kept in the Hungarian Franciscan Library and Archives of Budapest, but also other source materials about Szentkút. A part…
As a result of the project Touristic Development of Franciscan Cultural Heritage Sites of the Border Area by the Cooperation of the Two Provinces (MONUMENTIS) (SKHU/1601/1.1/060) financed by the Interreg V-A Slovakia-Hungary Cooperation Programme visitors have been provided new equipment in the medical room of the National Shrine of Szentkút. The new devices have been…
As a result of project implementation titled Touristic Development of Franciscan Cultural Heritage Sites of the Border Area by the Cooperation of the Two Provinces (MONUMENTIS) (SKHU/1601/1.1/060) within the Interreg V-A Slovakia-Hungary Cooperation Programme new garden tools have been purchased for the National Shrine of Szentkút, which contribute to making park maintenance work more efficient…
The meeting started with technical issues connecting to the administrative tasks of the project. The procedure of making Joint Marketing Plan was also discussed which is going to be presented at the Closing conference in November 2019.
MONUMNTIS project implementation has started on December 1st 2017 and is being funded by the European Regional Development Fund within the Interreg V-A Slovakia-Hungary Cooperation Programme. Project opening press conference has been organised by the Slovakian project partner on 19 December 2017 in Bratislava.