Heves megyei aprónyomtatványok 19/E
SOUTH HEVES Gyöngyös - Tárnáméra - Heves - Erdőtelek - Eger Tárnáméra is an ancient Hungarian village. The first written record of it is from 1356: the village is mentioned as 'Myra' in the manuscript. Tárnáméra became totally depopulated in the days of Turkish rule. A rich and ambitious man called János Almásy and his wife bought the lands belonging to the village in 1 770. The date of the conveyance of property is 1 701, and a year later János Almásy was mentioned in an official document as "landowner for life of the steppe called Fogacs and the village of Mára, that has just been peopled, in Heves County." Seeing that other castles in his neighborhood were making a parade of their wealth the landowner, who was growing more and more richer, built a splendid 'nest' for his family. The Baroque style castle of the Almásys is still open to the public. The road connecting Tárnáméra and Heves crosses lands under crop. Heves, a typical small town of the Great Hungarian Plains, became famous contry-wide for its tobacco and water melon in the 19th century. The street names in Heves tell us tales about the old times. Erdőtelek, an arboretum of nearly 3 ha. only a few kilometers from Heves is a place worth visiting. A visitor may see a valuable collection of live wood, hundreds of evergreen and deciduous trees, and several rare plants there in any time of the year. There are small labels near each plant to help their identification by visitors. Taking a walk in the arboretum will fill you with quiet and peace. Students interested in biology, as well as people looking for inspiration in garden designing will find it useful to have a look round there. Heves - Átány - Kömlő - Tiszanána Átány is to the northeast of Heves; 15th century manuscripts mention it as 'Athan'. Today it is a typical roosts-and-gardens village, thus the stalls are located around the settlement block. The villagers used to spend most of their time in the stalls, the men even slept there. Whenever they had the time, sitting by the fire under blue nights glittering with silver stars they were telling tales of their great-greatgrandfathers and the march of by-gone armies. The most famous sight of the village is the so called Kakasház ('rooster house') built around the 19th century, where each piece of furniture shows how very lasting the mental and material heritage of the former generations is. At present an etnographic exhibition may be seen in Kakasház. Having left Átány you will find Kömlő and then Tiszanána in the southeast. These are typical examples of the so called 'travel villages', which means that most of the houses in them were built along the two sides of the road crossing the village. Poroszló - Sarud - Kisköre Lake Tisza is one of the biggest water establ ishments of Hungary. It was Kisköre Dam that made it possible to drown an area four times bigger (134 km2) than Lake Velencei with water. By the flooding a water surface with small islands was created. The silken water, vast bays, backwaters, islets, and rich stock of game and fish of the area provides a great opportunity for recreation and relaxation. A real 'marshy paradise' has evolved near Poroszló, which is at the northeastern corner of Lake Tisza. Rare bird species live in the sedges and reeds of the isles and the lake-shore line, and small game and water-birds also find it an ideal living-space. The wonders of Nature, the quiet and undisturbed forests of the flood area, the trees tortured by ice, the whisper of the leafy boughs lean ing over the water, the sweet
