Ningun

The relief of the terrain changes alone 100 km towards the North of Budapest. The hills and rolling hills become mountain systems increasingly higher, pastures and meadows become forests and riverswill become streams and torrents. We came to the mountains of the North. It is a region located in the northeast corner of Hungary and formed by the mountain systems of Cserehát Börzsöny, Mátra, Bükkand Zemplén. In general are not high mountains (the highest is 1015m above sea level), but are a Hungarian pride and, at the same time, a place really very nice. The beauty of these mountains comesmainly from certain virginity and purity of this region, also a multitude of species of flora and fauna that appear on this site. A large part of the area is protected by law and is natural and landscapeparks. There are many areas that need protection: are above all the mountains formed by magma volcanic for thousands of years, today impress us with its beauty and strange rock structures. There areboth stone columns fashioned eruptions volcanic caves and caverns, fossil of organic beings populating the prehistoric sea or streams that lead to the rivers. To establish the Hungarian State beganthe process of the region's population, which reinforced between the 12th and 13th centuries. From this time comes most of the Romanesque monuments in the area, who managed to retain in the wild desertsof North Hungary. It was also this period when built castles and fortresses in every top of the mountain. The ruins of some of the palaces, destroyed ago 500 still by Turkish troops, they werepreserved to the present and can be visited by tourists. Today the most important cities of the region are Miskolc, Eger and Zagyvapálfalva. The mountainous region of Hungary is an area very rich in folktraditions. There are two more important and interesting ethnic groups: Palóc and Matyó. The Palóc living in the North of the Mátra mountain system, when the Palóc intensifies the northern lands,...