Horváth M. Ferenc (szerk.): Vác The heart of the Danube Bend. A historical guide for residents and globetrotters (Vác, 2009)
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282 EXCURSIONS AROUND THE TOWN Sights: Romanesque-style St Stephen's Church (13th and 15th centuries) on a hilltop, surrounded by a stone wall • row of wine cellars and press houses • relics of folk architecture • former house of a mine manager with a local history collection (17th century) • Miners'Church (13th century, extended in the 15th century) with a spiral columned sacrament house (15th century) and Rococo tabernacle (18th century) - functioning watermill and milling industry exhibition Programmes: narrow gauge railway service to Nagyirtáspuszta • bundledance of the local ethnical group (February) • the Day of the Forest Railway of Nagybörzsöny • vintage parade • Hungarian-Slovak Hunters' Day • house wine competition-angling The Roman Catholic church - a painting at the parish house The miners'coat of arms on the facade of the church Vámosmikola.................................................................................................................................... It used to be part of the Esterházy estate; in the 19th century the Huszár family acquired it. When World War II broke out about 300 Polish refugees found home and safety here. After the German occupation most of them were carried off to concentration camps. Their memory is preserved by a plaque in the village. Sights: former Esterházy, later Huszár mansion (c. 1750) in Baroque style, with a partly neo-Baroque chapel (20th century), today it is an elementary school • Baroque Roman Catholic church (mid-18th century) • local history exhibition in an old peasant house Programmes: horse riding in Ganádpuszta; countrywide meeting of the settlements called Vámos Huszár Castle Perőcsény It is a dead-end village in a valley of the Börzsöny. According to tradition the first landlord of the settlement was called Salgó and he had the castle of Salgó built on the nearby hill. The outer area of the village is adjacent to Nagybörzsöny. Perőcsény used to be involved in the mining of precious metals. Judging by the names of its early German population they must have surrived the Ottoman era, and they became Calvinists. Sights: Calvinist church (originally Gothic style, restored in the 18th century in Baroque, later in Romantic style), with a bell dating back to 1656 • carved wooden graveboards in the cemetery • Village Museum Programmes: sending "tebefa" (a traditional present made of wigs, given during carnival time) • vintage dance Wine-press houses
