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Rural tourism

Rural tourism is blooming in Békés County. A number of writings. The various baking trays, pots, roast pans, pancake
qualified accommodations offer the guests not only accom- pans, and tube pans are typically glazed in yellow, green, or

modation but also other programmes, as well. Anyone can brown colours.
taste the meals baked in the oven, try out folk craft s that There is very rich weaving culture in the county; women

were thought to be forgotten, and even take part in a tradi- of all nationalities were weaving linen. All the plant fi bres
tional, rural pig slaughter. used for weaving could be found in our county, which was
Entering the traditional Slovakian country houses in Békés- supplemented with crops, grain, and corn. We may say with
csaba, Szarvas, and Tótkomlós, the visitors are charmed by some exaggeration that the craft smanship culture - using
the atmosphere of the place and the contemporary furnish- fibres for weaving - is a special treasure of the Great Plain.

ings, so they can easily imagine the everyday lives of the Békés town with 22,000 inhabitants on the left bank of
peasants, originating from Upper Hungary, who lived and Kettős-Körös has rich handicraft traditions: gingerbread

worked hard in these houses. making, carpet weaving, traditional coat embroidery, as

The characteristic products of the county’s old and tradi- well as wattle and straw weaving, and basketry. In the nine-
tional folk handicraft are the potteries made by the pott ers teenth century, almost every second person in Békés could

in Tótkomlós, which are mainly bottles and typical cooking do wickerwork; they were famous for it.

pots in various forms and with different decorations and
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