The Roma Country House in Hodász, founded in 2001, is the first institution of this kind in Hungary. Located in an extremely deprived sub-region in North-Eastern Hungary, the country house is playing a prominent role not only in preserving the Roma traditions but also in local community-building and in ensuring a diverse offer of artistic and professional activities to the children and teenagers of the village. Different buildings constitute the country house:

1) a small cob house, which represents the living conditions of a relatively wealthy Gipsy family with traditional furniture and home utensils

2) a shabby house dug into the ground that represents the living conditions in the 1930s

3) the so-called ‘string-kindergarten’ (named after the strings that had been stretched around the Gipsy slum) founded in 1970 by Lina Rézműves, mother of Melinda Rézműves, the owner and manager of the Roma country house

4) a new community building, representing the 1970s housing conditions, which aims to be a tea house / community center for the local youth

5) an Atelier and Guest house, featuring also a nursery room and a conference room.