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Mátrafüred - Benevár-rom (Ruins of Benevár) - Hanák-kilátó romja (Ruins of Hanák Tower) - Mátraháza Palots Museum (the 'Palots' people are inhabitants of Northern Hungary)

Mátrafüred, the former name of it was Benepuszta, is a climatic resort in Southern Mátra. The Castle of Bene stood on a nearby hill, but it has fallen into ruins by now. Although it is overgrown with weedage and bush, the double network of trenches may still be observed. The ground conceals a number of mysteries that was uncovered through an excavation. The novel 'Benevára' was written by the historian Kabos Kandra in remembrance of the place. In the Middle Ages there were twelve watermills on the stream to grind the grain. Today the only fulling mill in Kalló Valley (Kalló means 'fulling mill') is on the bank of Bene Stream; the mill has been rebuilt in its 16th century form, keeping the original medieval structural traditions and the traditions of the conversion of timber.

The ruins of the former Hanák Lookout Tower can be found in the neighbourhood of the stone pit of Sástó, and near the Tower there is a commemorative column. The monument has been raised to the memory of Kolos Hanák, a lawyer of Gyöngyös who founded the Mátra Department of the Carpathian Society of Hungary, making tourist business a nation-wide issue. The first lookout tower erected in Mátra was named after him.

Mátraháza - Kékestető- Galyatető

Thistouroption offers the experienceof rambling about in the highest sited places of Hungary. Mátraháza is situated in the middle of Mátra Mountains, and has several fantastic natural endowments that make it a magnificent holiday and sports center. Besides active recreation, the subaline climate and pure mountain air of Mátra Mountains are ideal for recovery of health. Those who like ski-jumping may pay a visit to the jumping hill where the annual ski jumping championship takes place and which isonly a fifteen minutes' walk from the holiday resort. There is an abruptly rising motor road from the center of Mátraháza to Kékes, the highest peak of Mátra. The magnificent panorama, a gallery forest of beeches, fresh mountain air, and the high number of sunny hours (423 instead of the usual 350 measured in other parts of the counlryl attract a great many tourists to the ’top of the country’. When the weather is clear the snow-capped peaks of Tátra Mountains are visible to the naked eye from the lookout platform of the Television Transmitter Tower. The southern ski track, which also has a ski-lift, in the direction of Mátraháza is for beginners, while the northern track is recommended only to skiers who know everything about sweeping along at fast speed in dangerous curves. Galyatető is the third highest point of the country, and also a winter sport resort.

All tourists are welcomed by vast forests, trees centuries old, romantic woodland scenes of virgin Nature still untouched, and openings full of wild flowers.

Mátrafüred - Abasár - Márkáz - Domoszlő - Kisnana - fger

The villages of the traditional wine-lands of Mátra lie side by side like chain-links in the valley between the mountains Mátra and Bükk. Abasár is a famous wine-growing place of the wine-lands near Gyöngyös. The origin of its name goes back to the time of the Hungarian settlement. There was a tribe called kabar that settled down together with the Hungarians in the Carpathian basin. Their most famous leader was Sámuel Aba, the third king ot Hungary. Many people liked him and many people did not. According to the

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legend the hill was named after a hermit called Saint Egedius, who lived there at the time of St. Steven I (the first Christian king of Hungary) and spent most of his time by religious meditation.

An easy path from Nagy-Eged to Bikk-bérc (Bikk Crag) is on the crest of the hill. There is a forester's lodge on Bikk-bérc. The final destination is the shelter-hut of Várkút. The village of Felsőtárkány may be accessed from Várkút; the village is located to the north of Várkút in a valley enclosed by mountains. A protected flower called cypripedium (lady's slipper) grows in the close vicinity of the village. Cypripedium grew in large numbers there in the past, but nowadays there are less and less of this slim, slipper-shaped flower which is the symbol of Felsőtárkány and may be seen in the coat of arms of the village.

Eger - Egerszalók - Verpelét - Tamaszentmária - Sirok - Eger

There is a hot spring enclosed by pine woods in fully natural surroundings in the vicinity of the village Egerszalók. The medicinal water is recommended to people having locomotor diseases. The spring itself is a marvellous sight: steaming water running down the hillside, natural steps formed by the thick deposition of salt, and the landscape behind the ascending steam.

The village of Verpelét, famous for its tobacco and wine, is in the valley of Tarnapatak (Tarna Stream). The village had a reputation of wealth as early as the 18th century. The residents of the place call the tourists' attention to the famous blacksmith's workshop where relics of an ancient and vanishing profession have been preserved. The first blacksmiths started to work there at around King Matthias's time. It is said that the king himself visited the village once and had his horse shoed. Another village recalling the memories of historical ages is Tamaszentmária to the north of Verpelét. The early history of the village's Norman style building was puzzled out pretty slowly: finally it was discovered that the building had been erected in the first half of the 11 th century, probably at the time when Saint Steven and the heads of the pagan Hungarian clans had been fighting each other for the crown and ancient passions had clashed. The carvings on the bearing piles of the nave ara like a message from the sunny East. The influence of the goldsmiths' craft of steppe people may be felt, and there are also traces of Caucasian stone architecture. The above two kinds of influence show that the craftsmen of Árpád's people were respectful of their traditions. According to the present state of knowledge this church, which calls up the atmosphere of ancient times, is the country's oldest church in use.

Eger - Noszvaj - Bogács - Cserépfalu - Hór-völgy - Suba lyuk - Bükkzsérc - Odor várrom (546 m) - Felsőtárkány

The Suba-hole is famous for its fossils from the Neander Valley prehistoric man: a female rumb-bone, a jaw bone, a child skill, lots of animal bones and stone equipments as well. The reproductions of the most important fossils can be found in Cserépfalu, in the Museum of Suba-lyuk. The cave is 40 meters high and it can be approached on a 100 meters long wild romantic way. The Odor Castle ruin offers one of the most beautiful panoramic view in the Bükk mountains. In good weather conditions it is possible to see even the Tisza river (36 km distance). The history of the Ódon Castle mins is engraved in its rock: eolithic settlement, fortress from the Iron Age, Hungarian castle from the Middle Age, Hussite robber castle - it was destroyed around 1474. In the vicinity of the mins the tourist can find everything that can lie important: a cave of the prehistoric man, a spring with clear water, lay-by. Returning from the ruins the red and the yellow sign leads to Felsőtárkány.