Szentendre is the most accessible of the Danube Bend towns — just 20 kilometres from Budapest by suburban railway — and the most touristically developed. The compact old town has a dozen Serbian Orthodox churches built by the Serbian refugees who settled here after the Ottoman conquest of their homeland in the late 17th century. The Blagoveštenská Church (1754) is the most impressive, with a richly carved iconostasis.
The town has been an artists' colony since the early 20th century and has a high concentration of galleries, museums, and craft shops. The Kovács Margit Museum holds an extraordinary collection of ceramic sculpture by the 20th-century Hungarian artist. The Skanzen, Hungary's largest open-air ethnographic museum, is on the edge of town — 40 hectares of rural buildings moved from across the country, including mills, farmhouses, and a church.
The main square, Fő tér, is a handsome Baroque piazza surrounded by painted 18th-century buildings. In summer it is crowded; come in the morning or off-season for the quieter version.