The Ormánság area is to be found in the south western part of Hungary in Baranya County. To the south the River Drava marks its border and to the west partly Somogy County. It is typically flat, most of it belonging to the floodplain of the Drava. The small hillocks arising out of these wet areas became the sites for the villages.
The most important annual events of the Ormánság area are the Melon Festival held in Sellye in August and the Ormánság Days held at Whitsuntide.
The architectural memorials belong mostly to the vernacular. The typical method of building houses on a sledge-like construction derives from the natural conditions and the frequent flooding.
The Sellye “sledge” house is a true architectural curiosity. It was originally constructed with four beams laid in a rectangle on the ground. Vertical beams were added at the corners and these were held by a collar beams at the top. Between the bottom and top beams posts were added and these were interwoven with wattle, to which daub was added. In this raw state the walls could be carved and smoothed. The speciality of the house was that it could be moved by lifting the bottom beams and inserting rollers under them, so that the house could be towed.
In the Csányoszró sledge house we may see the furnishings of a peasant house from the end of the 19th Century.
The most famous treasures of the area are the churches. The Ormánság has been inhabited for centuries by Protestants and the painted wooden cassette ceilings of their churches are of particular value. The symbolic system used in the painted pine panels derives from ancient Hungarian symbolism. The most richly decorated examples may be found at Drávaiványi, Kórós, Adorjás and Kovácshida.

Adorjás
The steepled, late Baroque style church was built in 1836. The bottom of the choir is decorated with ceiling panels with Rococo ornamentation. The panels of the choir are decorated with floral motifs in feint tones, with grid motifs and individual tassel motifs. The basic colours are red, yellow and blue.

Drávaiványi
The church dating from 1792 is built in the Late Baroque style, and with its painted wood panels is one of the most outstanding architectural monuments of the Ormánság.
The ceiling of the church is covered with 167 painted cassettes, with nine in each row and in the semi circular apse four rows of seven. In the centre of the ceiling the so-called “Royal Cassette” may be found, with the details of its author. This sword-wielding, fish-tailed, crowned female figure, accompanied by a dove with an olive branch in its mouth and a fish, is the only figure depicted in any of the Ormánság Protestant churches.

Kórós
The church in the centre of the village was built in 1793 in the Late Baroque style.
The cassettes of the ceiling consist of nine rows each with six panels, with various motifs, combined by strong contours and colours. The basic colours change across the diagonal through white, bordeaux, blue and dark blue.

Kovácshida
The Classical style church was built in 1833, and the banister panels of the choir were probably made by János Gyarmati from Vajszló.
On the central panel of the banister two chalices are depicted, in accordance with Protestant symbolism. The other panels have floral decorations and on only one we may find two front-facing birds with stylised floral-like feathers.