Radó Dezső: Parks and Forests - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1992)

The Buda Hills from the Hármashatár Hill

with its houses preserving folk architecture, its 18th- century church, its row of cellars with saddle-roofed, fork-branching buildings in the Öreg Hill vineyard and its wooden graveposts in the cemetery.

The low-lying Mádencia Forest is rich in marshes and swamp forests. Reeds preserving swamp nattle, the characteristic relic species, are now fairly diminished and restricted to the vicinity of canals and ancient creeks. The most characteristic swamp meadow, the so called “csátés” swamp meadow, became the victim of peat exploitation. Among the ancient forests of the area the most valuable is the alder swamp with Hungarian ash. Elm, ash and oak grove forests developed on the more elevated terrain. This area comprises many species found among mountains, such as yellow blind nettle, shadow flower and asarabacca, which are considered relics in this environment.

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