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A folk-culture and public event looking back on more than 300 years of tradition, which this year will again set Pécsvárad and its surroundings dancing.
From October 10 for three days, tradition comes alive once more, with the all-day colorful festivities concluding each evening with concerts.
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Pécsvárad, Szentháromság tér - Kossuth u. - Európa tér
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From the writings of Andrásfalvy Bertalan:
„Around the forested Zengő hill, the youth of small Hungarian Reformed villages that had weathered the Turkish wars would meet each other annually; on St. Luke's Day, or the Saturday following it in Várkonyi and at the subsequent national fair in Pécsvárad.
By then the chestnuts had ripened and there was new wine in the cellars. Girls and boys came in throngs from distant relatives in Sárkőz, Mohács and Belvárd, and from neighboring villages, Nagypalló, Hidas, Váralja, Mázá. There was not a single yard in Várkonyi or in the upper town of Pécsvárad that was without guest carriages arriving from afar.
The girls, dressed in their finest clothes, walked up and down the streets, sang folk songs, danced in circles, „stepped," „ran" and „jumped," the smoke of bonfires and the scent of chestnuts roasting in pans filled the air. It was a youth gathering, an occasion for meeting, making friends, and awakening love. Every young person could find a suitable match for themselves…
In the evening there was a great ball in the large inn of Várkonyi, and the next day at the fair tents in Pécsvárad they could buy from the gingerbread makers the promising gingerbread hearts, bearing unspoken confessions delivered only through their messages….
This charming and exciting old celebration was jokingly called the maiden's fair.
From October 10 for three days, tradition comes alive once more, with the all-day colorful festivities concluding each evening with concerts.
...
Pécsvárad, Szentháromság tér - Kossuth u. - Európa tér
(More details coming soon!)
...
From the writings of Andrásfalvy Bertalan:
„Around the forested Zengő hill, the youth of small Hungarian Reformed villages that had weathered the Turkish wars would meet each other annually; on St. Luke's Day, or the Saturday following it in Várkonyi and at the subsequent national fair in Pécsvárad.
By then the chestnuts had ripened and there was new wine in the cellars. Girls and boys came in throngs from distant relatives in Sárkőz, Mohács and Belvárd, and from neighboring villages, Nagypalló, Hidas, Váralja, Mázá. There was not a single yard in Várkonyi or in the upper town of Pécsvárad that was without guest carriages arriving from afar.
The girls, dressed in their finest clothes, walked up and down the streets, sang folk songs, danced in circles, „stepped," „ran" and „jumped," the smoke of bonfires and the scent of chestnuts roasting in pans filled the air. It was a youth gathering, an occasion for meeting, making friends, and awakening love. Every young person could find a suitable match for themselves…
In the evening there was a great ball in the large inn of Várkonyi, and the next day at the fair tents in Pécsvárad they could buy from the gingerbread makers the promising gingerbread hearts, bearing unspoken confessions delivered only through their messages….
This charming and exciting old celebration was jokingly called the maiden's fair.
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