N. Kósa Judit - Szablyár Péter: Underground Buda - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2002)

Mine into monastery - the Bátori Cave

Mine into monastery - the Bátori Cave The Bátori Cave (also known as the Hárs Hill Cave) is in the Buda Hills on the northeast side of Greater Hárs Hill, about 440 metres above sea level. It can be reached on foot on the 'yellow' tourist path from Hűvösvölgy or from the Szépjuhászné Station of the Children's Railway. Since 1982 it has been under special environmental protection. With its combined length of 340 metres and its 40.7 metre vertical extension, the cave is at the top of the middle division of the nearly two hundred caves in the Buda Hills. Although this is one of the most precious of Budapest’s caves on account of its hydrological values and the curiosities it offers, the Bátori Cave is hardly known to the public. The ramified system of caverns was shaped by thermal waters likely to 20 entrance to the Baton Cave

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