Graboc
The settlement's main asset is the only surviving Serbian Orthodox monastic church in Hungary built between 1736 and 1741. The significance of the Grábóc Serbian monastery stretched far beyond the county borders; it was the intellectual and spiritual centre of the Serbian population within the Carpathian Basin.
There was already a Benedictine convent and church in the settlement in the 1300's. Its ruins are hidden in the overgrown area to the northwest of the Serbian cemetery.
Grábóc was made famous by the Serbian monks from the Dalmatian Dragovity monastery who fled here from the Turkish in 1580. First they built a wooden church and then in 1587, with the permission of the Buda pasha, a stone church. The Turkish ransacked the monastery in 1667 which was deserted in 1703. The monks returned following the Rákóczi Freedom Fight, erecting a small church made from clay bricks around which the current church was built in 1736. The church is in use once again; Serbian nuns live here.
How to get there:
By public transport, Volán buses serve the town from Bonyhád and Möcsény. By car, look for the village east of Bonyhád, southwest of Szekszárd.
Data card
| Settlement: | Grábóc |
| County: | Tolna county |
| Zipcode: | 7162 |
| Phone district number: | 74 |
| Population: | 198 |
| Rank of the settlement: | village |
| Address of Mayor`s office: | Grábóc, Rákóczi u. 84. |
| Phone number of Mayor`s office: | 74/409-182 |
| Email address of Mayor`s office: | graboc@polghiv.tolnamegye.hu |
| Graboc magyarul | |
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