Szalonna (town)

Szalonna
Szalonna
Location of Szalonna
Coordinates:
Country  Hungary
County Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén
Area
 • Total 20.08 km2 (7.8 sq mi)
Population (2004)
 • Total 1,057
 • Density 52.63/km2 (136.3/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code 3754
Area code(s) 48

Szalonna is a village in Hungary, in the Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county.

In the village there is an old architectural of Romanesque art: the church. It consists of two parts. The older is the rotunda on the east side of the recent building, which is younger, but of Árpád age - the village Romanesque church with murals. The rotunda has several relatives of this type in the Carpathian Basin: Herencsény, Bagod-Szentpál, Hidegség. A group of such extended rotunda old churches have a specific characteristic: the six folded inner structure of Karcsa, Gerény and Kiszombor.

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