Dörgicse is a village in

Veszprém county Veszprém (, ; ) is an administrative county (''vármegye'') in Hungary. Veszprém is also the name of the capital city of Veszprém county. Veszprém county Veszprém county lies in western Hungary. It covers the Bakony hills and the norther ...

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

. It consists of three hamlets (Felsõdörgicse, Alsódörgicse and Kisdörgicse) built on separate hills 4.3 km (2.7 m) north of

Lake Balaton Lake Balaton () is a freshwater rift lake in the Transdanubian region of Hungary. It is the List of largest lakes of Europe, largest lake in Central Europe, and one of the region's foremost tourist destinations. The Zala River provides the larges ...

. Dörgicse is famous for the wine production and its three medieval churches which were devastated during the

Turkish wars A series of military conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and various European states took place from the Late Middle Ages up through the early 20th century. The earliest conflicts began during the Byzantine–Ottoman wars, waged in Anatolia in ...

in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Gallery

File:Templomrom (9848. számú műemlék) 8.jpg, Ruin of medieval church, Alsódörgicse File:Felsődörgicse keleti homl.JPG, Saint Peter twin church File:Ruins of medieval church, Kisdörgicse -6.jpg, Ruin of medieval church, Kisdörgicse

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Street map (Hungarian)
Populated places in Veszprém County {{Veszprem-geo-stub