National heritage and famous people hungary

National heritage and famous people -Hungary

Hungarian world heritage sites

Cultural• Budapest, including the Banks of the

Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue (1987)

• Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs (Sopianae) (2000)

• Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape(2001)

• Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta (1999)• Millenary Benedictine Abbey of

Pannonhalma and its Natural Environment(1996)

• Old Village of Hollókő and its Surroundings(1987)

• Tokaj Wine Region Historic CulturalLandscape (2002)

Natural• Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst

(1995)

Christian crypts, Pécs:The predecessor of Pécs called Sopianae, which was part of the Romanempire, built numerous chapels, graves and mausolueums in the IV. century. The crypts are partly on the surface and partly underground. These Christian remains are the most important ones besides Italy.

Pécs: European Capital of Culture, 2010

Mosque of Kasim pasha

Zsolnay negyed

Zsolnay VilmosApril 19. 1828, Pécs – March 23. 1900, Pécs

He took over the family’s factory in 1853. He thought it was important to develop new ceramics. He was the first who used pyrogranite to decoratebuildings and the first whose factory used eosinglaze on ornaments.

Stalactite cave, Aggtelek:One of Europe’s biggest stalactite cave is Cave Bardla in Aggtelek. According toscientists this place is one of the Earth’s greatest geographical phenomena. ItsHungarian section is 17 kilometer long. The whole cave has 3 entrances.

The concert room

The Stalactite Cavebelongs to theNational Park of Aggtelek.

The park’s symbol is a spotted salamander, which you can see allaround the park’sterritory.

Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie von Wittelsbach - SisiDecember 24. 1837., München – September 10. 1898.,Genf

Empress of Austria, Queen ofHungary, wife of Ferenc József. Beforetheir marriage she had to learn thehistory of Austria and the royaletiquette. She heard the first hungarian wordsfrom her teacher, Majláth János. In 1863 she decided to learn thehungarian language. She was good friends with earlAndrássy Gyula.Her 4th child Mária Valéria was bornis the Castle of Buda. She visited Hungary several times. Her last visit was in 1896 during thefestivity of Millenium.

Andrássy avenue and Heroes’ square, Budapest:It is said to be the Champs-Elysées in Budapest. Its architect Ybl Miklós wasasked to design an avenue which is worthy for the Heroes’ square. Going throughthe avenue we can see residences lining up next to each other for more than a kilometer long.

Ybl Miklós was one of thebiggest architect in the XIX. Century and a significantrepresentative of historicism inEurope.

The whole avenue is 2310 meter long.

Octogon

The avenue’s inner part’s most valuable building is the Palace of the Hungarian StateOpera House which was also designed by Ybl Miklós. It was built in Neo Renaissancestyle.

Academy of Music

Heroes’ square

Wekerle Sándor prime minister entrusted Zala György and Schikendanz Albert todesign the Hero’s square.

In the middle you can see theMillenium memorial monument withGábriel archangel on top of the pillar. On the pedestal Lord Árpád withTétény, Ond Kond, Tas Huba and Előd.

Left peristyle: St. István, St. László, Könyves Kálmán , II. András, IV. Béla, Károly Róbert, Nagy Lajos

Right peristyle: Hunyadi János, King Mátyás, Bocskai István, Bethlen Gábor, Thököly Imre, II. Rákóczi Ferenc

Árpád

Tétény, Ond, Kond Előd, Huba Tas

St. István Gábriel archangel

Saint István

He was the first hungarian king. His coronation: December of 1000. orJanuary of 1001.During his reign he merged the hungariantribes into a unified Christian kingdom. He established the hungarian Christian churchand the hungarian state system. Every year we celebrate István’scanonization as a saint at 20th of August.

970 or 980, Esztergom – August 15. 1038.

Hungarian Holy Crown

Hunyadi MátyásFebruary 23. 1443., Kolozsvár – April 6. 1490., Vienna

He was reigning between 1458 and 1490. He was fond of art, scienceand occultizm. One of his court’sreturning guest was Janus Pannonius the first significanthungarian poet. In this era Mátyás had the second biggest library with2000-2500 books which we callcorvinák. He brought Renaissanceinto the kingdom. His army was the first permanenthungarian mercenary army theBlack army. This army counted163.000 best trained soldier.This army was the base of hiscentralised royal power.

Tokaj-hegyaljai borvidék

Tokaj was first mentioned in1353 as a settlement.After 1450 Tokaj wasproperty of the Hunyadi family. After world war II. its development sloweddown, but in 1986 it startedto develop dynamicallyagain.

The Tokaji aszú is a dessertwine, wine specialty. It’smade with a century-oldunique technology. Theyharvest the botrytisedgrapes in late autumn thenstart the special winemaking process.

InventorsVitamin C : Szent-Györgyi AlbertChlorine disinfection: Semmelweis IgnácMatch: Irinyi JánosBallpoint pen: Bíró László JózsefSoda, dynamo: Jedlik ÁnyosColoured TV: Goldmark Péter JánosFirst TV channel: Mihály DénesBéres-csepp : Béres JózsefSemi-automatic camera: Mihály József, Riszdorfer ÖdönNuclear bomb: Szilárd Leó, Wigner Jenő, Teller EdeRubik’s cube: Rubik Ernő

Hollókő

Hollókő is known for its uniquearchitecture and traditionalclothing and customs. Hollókő is still inhabited. It was declarednational heritage in 1987.

Easter watering