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| A Szirmay-kúria |
| Az oroszlános kapu, a reneszánsz tornác, A Szirmay és Hollóházi terem |
| A Szalon, a kóstolóterem, a konyha és a lakosztályok |
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The Szirmay Mansion
The village center of Tállya boasts a building nearly four hundred years old. The solid oak, winged entrance door of the former Szirmay Mansion is decorated with a pair of carved lions’ heads. Legend has it that a caress of the beast heads will impart good spirits to visitors and passers-by. The Oroszlános Ház—the “Lion’s Head Inn”—was originally the property of the Szirmays, a noble family with holdings across the Zemplén Hills who shaped and nurtured their narrower quarters and broader environment for almost eight hundred years. They probably built this mansion in the early 1600’s, judging from the window frames, coarsely carved with simple ornamentation, that came to light during the restoration. Also functioning as the farm center for the family’s estate, the building possesses robust construction and ideal orientation, evidencing the affluence and know-how of its owners. With its inlays in the Zopf style—an 18th-century school of architecture and design bridging late Baroque and Neoclassicism—and a fully restored knocker held in a carved lion-head’s jaws, the grand entrance door is the pride of the house. Around 1760, the mansion was enlarged and decorated with columns, brackets, and lunettes. Various features, such as the inner courtyard with its arcades and the arched porch, whose original flagstone paving has survived to this day, make it reasonable to assume that the redesign was the work of Franz Anton Hillebrandt, one of the leading Austrian architects of his day, who also chaired the Hungarian Royal Chamber. The remodeling of the mansion was completed in 1771.
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The Szirmay Mansion continued to provide a venue for enlightened and teeming social life until World War II. In the wake of the communist nationalization, the mansion was divided up into several apartments and nearly succumbed to the ensuing decades of decay, its façade dilapidated and only the lion-guarded door remaining to give an inkling of a formerly magnificent residence. The Szirmay Mansion received a second lease on life in 2006 when it reopened its famous doors as the Oroszlános Borvendéglő, the Lion’s Head Inn and Wine Restaurant. The interior design was commissioned from the Körtér Műterem, a Budapest-based studio, under supervision of head designer Lajos Tompos. Relying on the collaboration of diverse specializations in industrial design, arts and crafts, and the fine arts—sculpture, pottery, wood carving, painting, embroidery, as well as glass, textile, furniture, and graphic design—the interior design project was marked by a deep respect for a bygone world and the desire to decipher its message. The results rarely fail to cast a spell on our patrons.
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Stepping in the lion-headed door and passing through the Renaissance porch, we first enter the Szirmay Room, which functions as a restaurant and café. This opens into the Hollóházi Room, the damask-clad principal dining room of the mansion. Both of these premises communicate with a fine Salon, which doubles as a cigar room. The vaulted cellar hall underneath the main section of the building has been equipped with a fireplace and now serves as a spacious wine tasting room. Walking past the bottle storage area, we finally arrive at the historic cellar branch. Guests wishing to stay overnight or longer may choose from the three elegant suites of the Inn’s own, or from the 13 double rooms offered next door by the Bártfay Manor, which boasts fine amenities including a bath house.
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