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The fame of Eger wines in the 18th century was closely connected with the Valley of the Beautiful Woman, where there are 100-150 wine cellars. The two oldest neighboring cellar lines on Öregsor (Old Line) were built in the 1770s. Cellar building was boosted by Bishop Barkóczy’s economic policy: wine making increased, the market of wine was created, more storage space was needed.

In the north-western part of the town cellars cut into the tuff stone line up behind the houses in Amyékszala and Verőszala. Most of the cellars in Árnyékszala were owned by smallholders, but the beginning of the line was in the hands of the Gröber family in the middle of the 19th century. In cellars owned by burghers sometimes a small room, a club opened, where friendly companies were drinking wine.

In the direction of Ostoros, cellars line both sides of the steep road. The name of the place, Kőporos (Stone powder), refers to the material produced here earlier, which was used to clean crockery.

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