Tompa: Church, Rédl Castle and Cycling Route

Tompa combines distinctive architecture and a landscaped park with cycling and a themed tour. This offers different ways to shape your stay: architectural history, the park at Rédl Castle or experiences on two wheels. When choosing a holiday apartment in Tompa, you can decide which of these perspectives you want to define your trip.

Townscape, Architectural History and Park

The Kapisztrán St John Church is the largest building in Tompa city centre and was built in the eclectic style. Its size gives the city centre a distinctive architectural landmark; the style designation also draws attention to its design. Rédl Castle offers a different historical perspective: in the 1860s, it was remodelled to plans by Budapest architects Gerster Károly and Kauser Lipót.

The park surrounding Rédl Castle covers 37 hold and is landscaped with trees and a classical-style gloriette. This brings different details together: the size and style of the church, the castle’s remodelling history and the park’s landscape features. If you are interested in architecture, you can include these highlights in your travel plans rather than viewing Tompa through just one attraction.

Cycling Route and Themed Tour

The cycle route known as EuroVelo 13 runs along the Hungarian-Serbian border in Bács-Kiskun County. Near Tompa, cyclists cross the border to the south to visit attractions in Subotica. The cycling route therefore offers a different focus from Tompa’s architecture and parkland: it combines cycling with a destination across the border.

The Bácskai Bunker Tour leads to the Szent Anna Church. The church was built around the turn of the 20th century as a smaller-scale replica of Matthias Church in Budapest. This gives you two different options: a cycle ride with Subotica as your destination, or a themed route leading to this church. Check the tour’s current arrangements before setting out on the Bácskai Bunker Tour.

More Discoveries in the Wider Bács-Kiskun Destination

Another historical highlight in the wider Bács-Kiskun destination is in Tiszaalpár. The Tiszaalpár, Földvár educational trail presents the history of the Bronze Age fortification of Tiszaalpári Földvár and the way of life of people in the Bronze Age. Tiszaalpári Földvár is a specially protected archaeological site; it was designated as such under Regulation 3/2003. (I. 25.) NKÖM. In Tiszaalpár, a reconstruction of an Árpád-era village, built to mark the millennium, also depicts the settlement layout discovered during local excavations.

The Boróka educational trail in Bugac offers another way to learn about nature. It is 1,100 metres long and features information boards and interactive stations such as a forest xylophone and a play telescope. Landscape development takes centre stage at Lake Szelidi: the lake is a natural oxbow lake that developed from an arm of the Danube after the Ice Age. The educational trail about blue-green algae at Lake Szelidi has twelve information stations covering the lake’s development, the properties of its water, the organisms that live there and the surrounding wildlife. It is accessible on foot and by bicycle all year round.

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