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The Báthory and the

Károlyi families

From the land of the dragons, we can go in the direction of vated ceremonial halls and rich collections, is the must-see

the border, forgetting the county borders for a short time, attraction of the region.
since Vállaj, a village near the border, and located only a few In Căpleni (Kaplony) near Carei, on the ancient estate of the
kilometres from Nyírbátor in the southern direction, used to Károlyi family, the crypt of this family with a long history

be an estate of the Gut-Keled clan. Thanks to Károlyi, the new can be visited. The Károlyi family is one of the oldest noble

owner in the 1700s, German settlers and Swabian farmers Hungarian families; their family history is about a thousand

lived here. Some houses still have the fancy barns erected by years old and is intertwined with the arrival of the Hungarians

the wealthy farmers after the fire of 1903. These barns were in the Carpathian Basin. Their descendants live their daily li-

built of brick, and their plaster ornaments bear witness to the ves all over the world, but some of them fi nd their fi nal rest-
influence of eclecticism. ing place in Căpleni, in the family mausoleum dreamt up by

Carei (Nagykároly) is less than 10 km from here. Th e town Sándor Károlyi.

that belongs to Romania today is a famous town of the Par- The villages of Berea (Bere) and the adjacent Ciumești (Cso-
tium, which still preserves its Hungarian memories. Th e maköz), the two small villages in the Partium with one saved
imposing Károlyi Castle with its beautiful English garden, medieval church and one renovated medieval church, are
reminiscent of romantic old castles of knights, and its reno- real curiosities.
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