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of Baroque architecture. Outstanding among them are the Grassalkovich Chäteau, built in the 1750s, St Adalbert's Parish Church, and Nagygombos Manor. Visitors are rightly interested in the collections and exhibitions of the Hatvan Gallery and the Town Library and Museum, the Hatvan-Expo exhibition and fair, and the series of events held on the Baroque Days. HERÉD The name of this village lying partly on hills is first mentioned as Hereyd in a deed of 1281. By 1546 it was under Ottoman occupation, with 14 farmers paying tax to the Turkish landlord. After the village was sold in 1627 by Balázs Kamuti, it changed hands sev-eral times. At the end of the 17th c., a grant was made of it by King Leopold, and in 1740 it was acquired permanently by the Podmaniczky barons. With a population of 2,000 today, the village belonged to Nógrád County until 1950. HORT This village on the flat northern part of the Great Hungarian Plain came into being some time after the Mongol incursion of 1241-2, being mentioned in 1337 as Hurth, and later as Horth. It often changed owners, being ac-quired by Count Koháry in 1689. The RC Church was rebuilt in 1769. With a population of 3,648 by the turn of this century, the village today is know for its farming, melon production and developing infrastructure. LŐRINCI Already inhabited at the time of the Hungarian Conquest at the end of the 9th c., the first written record refers it as ecclesi de Laurentio. It has belonged to four different counties during its history, joining Heves County in 1950. Devel-opment began with the establishment of factories in the 19th c. and continued with the erection of the power station in the 20th c. Public services, housing and social and arts institutions were built. Today it is an important community and the co-centre of the district. Since January 1,1992, it has had the rank of a town, and the associated scope for initiative has had a great influence on the lives of the local population. Its lido and camp site and various places of entertainment offer visitors pleasant relaxation. The local museum shows the history of the place and material relics from its past. NAGYKÖKÉNYES The village and district have been inhabited continously for 6,000 years. The first written mention occurs in 1235. The superimposed cultures are displayed at an archaelogical exhibition in the school. The village, with about 700 inhabitants, lies on a gently sloping site on the right bank of the Bér Brook. PETÓFIBANYA began to be built round the deep colliery in the 1940s. Its well-equipped Cultural Centre, cinema and library provide a home for the arts and self-improvement. The traditional miners' brass band is extremely popular. There is a tourist guest house and a camp site at the sports centre, where there are various sports facilities. The premises are also suitable for events, meetings and conferences. ROZS ASZENTMÁRTON The village lies at the western foot of the Mátra, in a basin surrounded by hills, stretching along the Ago Brook. The earliest documentary mention dates from 1267. After belonging to the Aba clan in the early Middle Ages, it frequently changed hands. It took its present name in 1903. The old, collapsing stone church was rebuilt by Antal Grassalkovich. The village is known as the Cradle of Lignite Mining, as coal-mining in the region began here in 1917. The inhabitants have tended vineyards for centuries, which is why the Tarcód and Nagyvölgy rows of cellars still survive as a popular excursion place with visitors. SZŰCSI The first documentary information about the village dates from 1267, its name deriving from the fact that the royal furriers (szűcs) lived here. It was granted by King Sigismund to the Pálóczy family in 1412, and came into the Földváry family's hands in the 17th c. Its most famous son was József Bajza, the early 19th-c. founder of Hungarian literary criticism, to whom the local Bajza Court contains a memorial museum. The village, part of the historic Mátraalja wine region, has a quaint row of wine cellars carved into the tufa rock in the north. The fish ponds on the southern edge are a favourite place for excursions and relaxation. TURA This community in Pest County on the banks of the Galga River is first mentioned in a document of 1220. In the 14th c. it became a customs collecting place, and in 1464 it is mentioned as a market town. Its outstanding sched-uled building is the Chateau, erected in a French-influenced Eclectic, Renaissance Revival style to the designs of Miklós Ybl in 1883. Historical relics and examples of folk art are displayed it the village museum, where the folk costume of Tura, whose inhabitants are Palóc people, can also be seen. The community has a rich store of unusual folksongs, which encour-aged both Bartók and Kodály to collect here. ZAGYVASZÁNTÓ One of the oldest communities in the Selyp Basin, it will celebrate the 700th anniversary of its foundation in 1999. Mainly living by farming until the mid-20th c., most of the inhabitants took jobs in the factories when industrialization came. Rising numbers of visitors can be expected due to a fine setting, the proximity of larger towns, good transport services, and many fine old buildings in the village. * * *
