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Rétköz circular route

Bike tour among the memories of
bygone eras and lands

Route: Nyíregyháza – Nagyhalász – Ibrány – Paszab – declared a historical memorial site in 2023. In addition to
Tiszabercel – Gávavencsellő – Balsa – Szabolcs – Tímár the historical and monumental values, the route touches
– Rakamaz – Nyírtelek – Nyíregyháza many places important in terms of ethnography; the
Length of the tour: 92 km weaver’s house in Paszab shows the famous hand-woven
textiles of Paszab, and in Gávavencsellő, we can see the
Rétköz is the deep floodplain of the upper section of the traditions of the Swabians, who sett led there.

Tisza River in Szabolcs, which stretches between the Ló-
nyai channel and the Tisza River from Tuzsér all the way to
Gávavencsellő. Rétköz was the realm of water until the
19th century; it was entwined by thousands of branches
of the Tisza, which formed the land into a marshy and
boggy area and shaped the daily lives of the people living

there. The 92-kilometre-long circular tour, which sets out
to conquer the western half of the Upper Tisza region,
passes through the lands of a bygone water world and the
Nyírség, almost all the way on bike paths. On this tour, at
the pumping station in Tiszabercel, you can visit one of the
most beautiful monuments of the history of industry in the
Upper Tisza region, which was responsible for the dewa-

tering of Rétköz. The birthhouse of György Bessenyei, the

most signifi cant figure of the Hungarian Enlightenment,
is also found in Tiszabercel. In Szabolcs, we can admire
one of the most spectacular and best-researched mott es in
Central Europe, as well as one of Hungary’s oldest and still
existing churches, where the Council of Szabolcs was held
in 1092, presided over by Saint Ladislaus. Th e importance
of the monument complex is shown by the fact that it was

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