Előszállás is a village in Dunaújváros district of Fejér County, Hungary.
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Climate
[edit]The village and its surroundings belong to the warm, moderately dry, moderately hot summer areas of the Mezőföld.
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Map of Előszállás
The main road 61 between Dunaföldvár and Nagykanizsa , which connects the main roads 6 and 7, passes through the village; along the road Előszállás is the first settlement after Dunaföldvár. On the M6 motorway, you can turn at the 86th kilometre.
There is no train service.
Get around
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- 1 Cistercian Mansion (Cisztercita Rendház), Szöglet kert 2. Built in 1765, the Cistercian Mansion is was built in 1765. It is a free-standing, two-storey, basement, L-floored baroque building with a tent roof. Its main façade has a slightly protruding central risalite, on which a stone-framed gate with a semicircular closure opens. The upstairs part is decorated with a double window above the gate, below which the coat of arms of the order was once visible. Behind the building is a courtyard closed with one-storey economic wings, and the adjoining church is connected by a wavy, masonry and plastered fence. The doorway is vaulted, with modest stucco in some rooms. Baroque wooden railing in the staircase; the baroque statue of Diogenes, which was once here, is now in the Hungarian National Gallery. It is now empty. The once-rich “Cifra Garden” is now being cared for by the village community.
- 2 East Mezőföld Loess-valley, Túzok természetvédelmi terület. Nature preserve
- 3 Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption, or Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (Kisboldogasszony római katolikus plébániatemplom). Built in 1778-79, it is a free-standing baroque building. Its bell-shaped, pyramid-hewn central tower steps in front of the façade, its two-section nave is covered with a Czech glass vault, with a strong double pilaster wall partition, with a narrower, single-section, semicircular sanctuary to which a sacristy is attached from the left. Above the entrance is a three-hole, split organ loft with a wrought-iron railing on the parapet. The main altar with columns and cornices is a monogram of Mary, surrounded by stone, surrounded on both sides by wooden statues of Zechariah and Elizabeth, surrounded by angels on its pediment, and surrounded by a ray of rays and clouds. The main altarpiece from the unknown painter depicts the birth of Mary, the contemporary side altarpieces depict St. Joseph and St. Bernat
- The World War II memorial in the cemetery, inaugurated in 1990
