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 The Great Hungarian Plains
":*?`*:?~My?tic?l~?:*. by budapest8
Whenever Hungary is mentioned somewhere throughout the world,
it is sure that the Puszta and the Hortobagy is also referred to.
Hortobagy's name was made famous by descriptions of scientists,
travellers, artists and tourists, however it is more and more often
mentioned as the first national park of Hungary. Its valuable landscape,
rich fauna and flora, special ethnographic and cultural historic relics
together make this region an irreplaceable wealth and a national treasure. Leave a Comment
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 Fishemen's Bastion by cobrioc
The walled Castle District is the premier destination and contains some of Budapest's most important monuments and museums.
It consists of two district parts: the Old Town
and the Royal Palace.
Decorative churches and the famous Fishermen's Bastion. South of the Old Town is the Royal Palace , houses a number of museums, including the National Gallery.
The oldest and most intersting parts of the city is O"buda. The area is remarkeble for its Roman riuns. North of O'buda is the Roman civilian town of Aquincum, the most complete in Hungary. The Aquincum Museum tries to put it all in perspective, unfortunately only in Hungarian.
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 Pecs by cobrioc
Pecs synagogue another of Pecs extraordinary monuments.
Amount the city's best museums are the Victor Vasarely Museum and the Zsolnay Porcelain Exhibit..
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 Stormy Hortobagy-puszta.
Painting by Tivadar by budapest8
Hortobagy is a saliferous , grassy desert of 115 km2. The famous romantic,
wind-swept plain of the Hortobagy ranges form the Tisza river to the edge of the
Hajdusag region, where via the smaller region called Hajdahat it borders Debrecen.
The landscape was primarily shaped by the waters, mainly by the huge floods of the river
Tisza. The memories of the ancient tide area are preserved in the vast marshes, revitalized
by now through artificial water supplies. The alluviums of the river Tisza rich in salt took a main part in initiating the solonetz soils covered by short grass pasture lands.
The Hortobagy region was settled as early as the Neolithic age. Towards the end of the
1st century the Jazig people of Iranian origin settled down on the steppe-like territories
east of the river Tisza and turned to agriculture. From their time on, the life on the plains
was intertwined with extensive livestock keeping and pastoral life. The settlements
founded by the conquering Hungarians in the 10th-13th centuries were demolished and
abandoned during the Tartar and Turkish rule. By 1460 the area was already described as
a "puszta", which denoted an uninhibited place. The inhabitants never resettled these
places, but have utilized them for extensive livestock keeping ever since. This is why the
sight of ancient Hungarian domestic animals - the Hungarian gray longhorn cattle, the
spiral-horn "Racka" sheep and Nonius horses-, herdsmen, shepherds and horse-herds
are indispensable accessories of the landscape. The horse shows revive the traditions of
the hors-herds of old times and include the famous five-in-hand driving.
The landscape of the Hortobagy National Park preserves intact
and visible the evidence of its traditional use over more than two
millennia and represents the harmonious interaction between
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 Early Christian Necropolis
Pecs by budapest8
World Heritage List
Hungary
Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and
Andrassy Avenue (1987, 2002)
Old Village of Holloko and its Surroundings (1987)
Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst (1995, 2000) *
Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma and its
Natural Environment (1996)
Hortobagy National Park - the Puszta (1999)
Early Christian Necropolis of Pecs (Sopianae) (2000)
Ferto / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape (2001) *
Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape (2002)
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 Esterházy kastély by kalozLeave a Comment
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 Barcsay Utca by kaloz
Hungarian Lesson: ut -- street; utca -- little street. Leave a Comment
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