Hungary: M1 — Jarofold

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A három tiszántuli táj, amelyeknek találkozásánál járunk: a Körös-vidék, a Nagykunság és a Nagy-Sárrét. A három város, amelyeket bemutatunk: Mezőtúr, Túrkeve és Dévaványa. A táj, a népi hagyományok és a látnivalók tekintetében ez a vidék nagyon változatos.

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00:00:00and the world of his motifs, that
00:00:03it continues to live so that I can pass it on, lay something
00:00:07on the table, so that I can make this
00:00:11heritage that I received valuable, and this is important
00:00:14to me, and I would like to pass this on to our sons
00:00:16as well.
00:00:23This miracle that is born here on the soil of this simple
00:00:27is actually Matyó.
00:00:30our collection of patterns, now our national treasure, and it
00:00:33is also on UNESCO's list of intangible heritage.
00:00:37His grandfather,
00:00:46Nagy János, the furrier, became
00:00:49world-famous under his nickname. Százrózsás Kis Jankó Bori was the
00:00:52designer and further developer
00:00:55of Mezőkövesd Matyó embroidery. His plans included creating 101
00:00:59flower motifs using the existing Matyó form
00:01:02world. Unfortunately, he could not achieve
00:01:06this, but his memory is preserved by the enormous folk art
00:01:10treasure that came out
00:02:02"What do these data tell us? Now
00:02:05we all see names, we focus on individual
00:02:09destinies, but in reality, this is also
00:02:12about the functioning of power. Data is
00:02:15never the story, it's just
00:02:17over the grave, as family a partial information, and from now on, it will be
00:02:20our task to investigate the full
00:02:24story. Agent files the price
00:02:27of silence, part three.
00:04:53Cup winner in Europe,
00:04:57the third win is also there, three matches.
00:05:42Medieval museum tour French
00:05:45style every day at 5:55 PM
00:05:48on M1.
00:05:50The
00:05:54National Archive
00:06:28In this region beyond the Tisza, the wide horizon shows
00:06:32fertile pastures, cultivated lands and waters, which
00:06:35winding in riverbeds or just in the wilderness, regulated or
00:06:39naturally, have always characterized these landscapes.
00:06:42More precisely, landscapes, because our three settlements today
00:06:46are on the edge of three distinctive landscapes,
00:06:49adjacent to each other, belonging to three worlds. Mezőtúr preserves
00:06:53the traditions of the Körös region, Turkeve the Nagykunság, and Dévaványa
00:06:56the Nagysárrét, and shows them to attentive travelers.
00:07:13"from the water, we approach the town with many centuries
00:07:16of history and culture,
00:07:20Mezőtúr, from the direction of the Hortobágy-Berettyó
00:07:22Canal. The town of 2000 inhabitants, surrounded by the oxbow
00:07:26lakes of the Körös, awaits its visitors with many interesting
00:07:29sights. Let's start with perhaps the most famous
00:07:32attraction, the Túri pottery. In front of the
00:07:36beautiful, classical-style, now operating as an exhibition hall
00:07:40former synagogue, stands the monument
00:07:43to the local pottery, and next door is the pottery
00:07:46museum. The centuries of Túri pottery are presented
00:07:49by a beautifully arranged, well-organized
00:07:52and value-rich independent exhibition.
00:07:55The beginnings date back to the 15th-16th
00:07:59century, although this period is primarily referred
00:08:02to by occupational and street names. A
00:08:061737 document mentions four potters among
00:08:1019 craftsmen. The past 200 years are not only shown
00:08:14by writings, but also by the objects in the collection,
00:08:17from the earlier black pottery
00:08:21to the works of today's ironmongers.
00:08:37Walking in the city, we can encounter many unique, particularly beautiful,
00:08:41or historically significant
00:08:43buildings. The Reformed Gymnasium is almost five hundred
00:08:47years old, the former Bolvári House with its beautiful courtyard
00:08:51facade is now a music school. The
00:08:54authentic document of the city's past 100 years is Teacher
00:08:57András Szabó's rich postcard collection.
00:09:01The first postcard that appears in
00:09:04my collection was published in
00:09:071899, and this, what you see here, is
00:09:10up to 1945. "Another box, which is in
00:09:14the apartment, is from 1945
00:09:16to the present day, that's a different one, if
00:09:19we compare these approximately two times 50
00:09:23years, which was more fertile
00:09:26in this respect, I would definitely say that the period
00:09:30before 1945 presents the city
00:09:33in a much wider scope, and it is easier to
00:09:36track where what was, what changed in which area,
00:09:40how it changed, it's here. For example, a small package, this is
00:09:4420-30 postcards, which we put aside here because
00:09:47these postcards were made from a single
00:09:50building, namely from the city's venerable,
00:09:54100-year-old gymnasium. The Teleki Blanka
00:09:57Gymnasium will celebrate its 100th
00:10:01anniversary this September 27th. Here is, for example,
00:10:04Gergely Fazekas's restaurant, obviously the owner
00:10:07Gergely Fazekas is visible in the picture, obviously
00:10:10he also had the postcard made. "Some transformations have already
00:10:14taken place in its external appearance, but it still
00:10:17functions as the same inn and serves the same purpose.
00:10:20In November 1907, someone
00:10:24sent a windmill postcard
00:10:27from Mezőtúr, today they would hardly be able to send such a thing. 10-12
00:10:30windmills operated in the vicinity of Mezőtúr
00:10:34already from the 1760s, the last windmill was
00:10:37dismantled in
00:10:391912. Here, however, is a building that
00:10:43stood and still stands, moreover, a few
00:10:46years ago it was declared a monument. This is
00:10:49the railway station built around the
00:10:521860s. Well, very much so.
00:10:56Just after renovation.
00:10:58In color, the same. Here is a historical document, well, this
00:11:02is extremely interesting.
00:11:04Hungarian soldiers from 1848-49
00:11:07stand in line in front of the Kossuth house
00:11:10that still exists today. These people are about 80 years old, so
00:11:14it could have been made around the turn of the century. Here is a date
00:11:181904. This building was built
00:11:22in the Millennium year from the donations
00:11:25of the citizens of Mezőtúr, then
00:11:28after nationalization, the army
00:11:31took ownership of it, as an officers' mess, thus it became known, in the
00:11:35last 8-10 years
00:11:39ownerless.
00:11:41Bidding farewell to Mezőtúr, we accept an
00:11:44invitation. On the banks of the Körös next to Takács Tanya, Sándor
00:11:48Kávási and some members of the Buzavirág Folk Song Circle, by presenting
00:11:52the local folk song treasure.
00:11:55Imre Csék enticed with the flavors of the traditional
00:11:58pasta and potato dish, topogó. Let's see
00:12:01first how Mezőtúri
00:12:03topogó is made.
00:12:06I fry the bacon in this
00:12:09cauldron, halfway, yes. So not completely.
00:12:12And then I add the
00:12:16pre-prepared onions, and they cook together
00:12:19in a state where the onion is, so to speak,
00:12:23wilted. Hmm, yes, and then we add
00:12:27the potatoes, or first the
00:12:30colored peppers, then the potatoes, when
00:12:33the potatoes are boiled, well, then it's a paprika potato dish, it basically
00:12:37looks like a paprika potato dish at first, I pour enough water
00:12:41to cover the entire
00:12:44older part in the
00:12:47cauldron, and then we cook it until
00:12:50it completely boils down, and then we
00:12:54stir it until the raw pasta, which is already
00:12:57cooked, doesn't brown. This
00:13:01is when you have to stir it, you have to turn it over, yes, why did it get
00:13:05this name? Well, I guess because it takes a long time,
00:13:08at least four hours, if you want to do it perfectly, oh my goodness,
00:13:12that's it,
00:13:24it has to be
00:13:27like this, it has to be turned over a few times,
00:13:31at least 17 times, and if we turn it
00:13:34over 17 times, then it will be beautifully done, what makes it a real
00:13:38Mezőtúri dish, please
00:13:40tell me,
00:13:44well, in the end, because the harvesters,
00:13:47when they went out for the whole week, they
00:13:51hung the bacon on the tree, kept it there,
00:13:54and... the pasta, so it didn't spoil,
00:14:06because the lord's clattering spoon
00:14:10also, my lover
00:14:13left me, my darling also, if
00:14:16he left, if he left, if he left,
00:14:19I will live myself,
00:14:23myself. Mezőtúr,
00:14:26under, a fiddler,
00:14:30girls fry the fish the
00:14:33fish, they cover
00:14:36it, cover it,
00:14:39they give it to the lad,
00:14:42they feed it, they cover it
00:14:45in a scarf, cover it,
00:14:49they give it to the lad,
00:14:52they give it, what is the traditional folk song
00:14:55treasure like in this region, it's actually
00:14:59more our folk music that is characterized
00:15:02by new-style folk songs, and the summás
00:15:06songs, because people
00:15:09hired themselves out as summás in large farms, that was their
00:15:12income, and then some for six months, and then during that time
00:15:16they earned their daily bread for the year, or for example, a
00:15:19very interesting thing is that the
00:15:22harvest threshing workers, when they went
00:15:26out on weekends, or came home to clean themselves, as they used
00:15:29to say, they came home on Saturdays, and on
00:15:33Sunday afternoon they went out again, they sang the whole way,
00:15:36roughly and... "they put a
00:15:39guest side to the side of the
00:15:42carts, they hung their legs
00:15:45out, I think about 12 people could fit
00:15:49on such a cart, and they sang the whole
00:15:51way, and it was very interesting that when the
00:15:55collective farms were formed, the workers were transported by
00:15:59bus, they didn't sing, please tell me, what was
00:16:02this, they don't sing, not anymore,
00:16:06and here is the..." great role of the
00:16:09folk song circles, the folk song circles
00:16:13re-sing, learn,
00:16:16and pass on the songs of the past, and try
00:16:19to pass them on to young people
00:16:22as well. Talking with our dear Mezőtúr hosts,
00:16:26it turned out that cooking topogó or singing together
00:16:29is still not among the rarest events around here. We wish
00:16:33you many similar, pleasant, delicious
00:16:36encounters. Leaving the Körös region and heading
00:16:40north, we continue towards the Nagykunság.
00:16:43On foot, by bicycle, it's only an hour's walk.
00:16:47Our next destination is Túrkeve.
00:16:50Taking advantage of the sunshine of our stormy summer, the harvest is underway
00:16:54in the southernmost region of the Nagykunság. "You swayed
00:16:57the ears of grain in the fields of Kunság." Kölcsey
00:17:01writes, but he doesn't mention the Cumanian mounds, so characteristic
00:17:04of the landscape and with such a mysterious history. But these
00:17:08small hills already stood here beyond the Tisza at the beginning
00:17:11of the last century, many beautiful legends about the more than a thousand
00:17:15structures circulate in popular memory, but we
00:17:18would like to find out something definite from archaeologist
00:17:22Marietta Csányi. The people living here always knew that these mounds
00:17:26were artificial, they instinctively felt it, and
00:17:29identified them with pagan burial customs. This is where
00:17:33the name Kunhalom (Cumanian mound) comes from. In reality, this is not an explanation
00:17:37for the origin of the Cumanian mounds, this is not true, because these mounds
00:17:40were formed much earlier, several thousand years ago, during the Bronze
00:17:44Age, when ethnic groups arrived here from Eastern Europe,
00:17:48who buried their dead in this way, when a dead person
00:17:52died, they piled earth
00:17:55members died, they were buried here, and then the originally
00:17:58smaller mounds became larger earthworks, the
00:18:02peoples of the Migration Period also saw them, Árpád's
00:18:06Magyars also encountered them, "and not only did they encounter them in later times, but they
00:18:10also buried their dead here, later too, in this way, even Cumans could have been
00:18:13buried here, so the name Cumanian mound may also have
00:18:16some basis. What is under
00:18:20such a small mound, if we were to excavate it, what would we find
00:18:23inside? At the bottom of the mounds there are usually one, three,
00:18:27four, five graves, the graves contain
00:18:30poor grave goods, perhaps a pot in which food
00:18:33for the deceased was placed, possibly a tool,
00:18:37or very rarely copper, so very poor
00:18:41graves, the main characteristic of which is that
00:18:44without exception, next to every deceased, there is a lump
00:18:48of ocher, ocher is a natural earth pigment,
00:18:51which symbolized the color of life. now we see far fewer mounds
00:18:55than there originally were, there are also some
00:18:58that are almost invisible to the naked eye, they may have been
00:19:01one or two meters high originally, due to agricultural
00:19:05cultivation they have disappeared from the surface, only a few have been
00:19:09excavated, well, let's say half a hundred, their excavation is
00:19:13a huge earthwork, so that's also why we have been delayed
00:19:16with their research, it costs a lot, it costs a lot, yes,
00:19:20but the goal of the archaeologists is
00:19:24to preserve these mounds as long as possible, because there are so few
00:19:27human interventions that do not
00:19:31destroy nature, but rather adorn it, so let's
00:19:34preserve them.
00:19:37This orphaned station building stands roughly halfway
00:19:41between Mezőtúr and Turkeve. Here,
00:19:43a young elementary school student named Sándor Kelner could
00:19:46have boarded the train that figuratively speaking
00:19:50headed towards Vienna, Hollywood, and London, and the former
00:19:54boy, as Sir Alexander Korda, director and producer
00:19:57of many world-famous films, died in
00:20:001956
00:20:02in London.
00:20:04The permanent exhibition of the Turkeve museum
00:20:08presents the works of two talented and troubled sculptor
00:20:11brothers, Sándor and Gergely Finta. One of them
00:20:15made a name for himself in America, the other
00:20:18primarily in Paris, and finally they meet again
00:20:22here in their hometown, Turkeve, at least their
00:20:25works do.
00:20:27In another room of the museum, an exhibition of the Győrfi
00:20:31family, who had a great impact on Túrkeve, Karcag and the entire
00:20:34Nagykunság, can be seen.
00:20:37We must mention Lajos Győrfi, the former director
00:20:40of the museum, who was the most distinguished
00:20:43researcher of Túrkeve ethnography.
00:20:47The rich local historical collection
00:20:50owned by the museum is currently not on display, but thanks
00:20:53to museum director Dr. Julianna Örsi, we were able
00:20:57to peek into the shelves of the storage room.
00:21:00Visitors can see the material in temporary exhibitions.
00:21:17In the city, though primarily in the side
00:21:20streets, many beautiful, old houses made of mud, with thatched
00:21:23or tiled roofs, can still be seen,
00:21:27and we hope their number will not rapidly decrease
00:21:30in the near future either. One of the most
00:21:33beautiful of these is the Győrfi farm on the outskirts of the city, which
00:21:37is now owned by the local government.
00:21:40The camp organized here every
00:21:44year serves to preserve the local ethnographic values, customs,
00:21:47and crafts, and children from more distant
00:21:51regions of the country also come here. The
00:21:55campers can even ride the horses owned
00:21:58by the city government.
00:22:13During the research of the covered Kunság houses, in some
00:22:16places we were happy to see the traditional, horizontally boarded.
00:22:27Let's continue the series of attractions in Túrkeve with the exhibition of Cumanian embroidery housed in the community center. Mrs. Kálmán Rác,
00:22:31Aunt Marika, local handcraft circle leader,
00:22:35talks about the peculiarities of Cumanian embroidery.
00:22:38These patterns contain all branches of the
00:22:42decorative art of the Nagykunság people. Very
00:22:46simple, naive patterns, but...
00:22:50"the colors harmonize very well,
00:22:54the essence of Cumanian embroidery
00:22:58is that the colors always
00:23:01darken from the inside out, or
00:23:04from the outside in, so the pattern
00:23:07looks like needle painting, we also call it embroidered
00:23:11stitching in three rows, which means
00:23:14that the main motifs located
00:23:17in the center
00:23:20are always separated by a darker
00:23:23stripe from the smaller patterns
00:23:26located above and below.
00:23:29In another room of the community center, paintings by Lajos Bodnár,
00:23:33a recently deceased naive painter, are
00:23:36exhibited. It is special that Uncle Lajos
00:23:40painted all the windmills around the town,
00:23:42because a few years ago there were still
00:23:46plenty of these buildings so characteristic of the Great Plain landscape.
00:23:51Today there is only one left, the mill of the late
00:23:54Kálmán Molnár on the northern edge of the town,
00:23:57in a very dilapidated condition. What a shame, what
00:24:01a shame.
00:24:04The settlement, which was depopulated during the Turkish rule,
00:24:07built its large Baroque and
00:24:11classical-style Reformed church
00:24:13more than 40 years after its re-settlement
00:24:16in 1713, with the usual fire-watch
00:24:20balcony around its tower, the huge
00:24:23interior space's two-story gallery is no longer filled
00:24:27with worshipers, perhaps that's why, and obviously due to the lack
00:24:30of exhibition space, this lovely little ethnographic
00:24:34exhibition was brought here, the largest part of which was collected
00:24:37by the students of the Kaszap Nagy István Primary School,
00:24:40of course with the help of their grandparents,
00:24:43and under the leadership of Debreceni Lászlóné,
00:24:46the director of the community center, you can see the furniture
00:24:50and tools of a peasant
00:24:53on the gallery of the Reformed church.
00:24:56The beautiful building of the 18th-century
00:24:59parsonage is also there, but there are also
00:25:03some other special buildings in the city. The former
00:25:06civilian Lajos Makkosút elementary school
00:25:10was built in 1909 in a national romantic
00:25:13style. The beautiful, classical-style listed
00:25:17residential building built around 1830
00:25:20has a peculiar name. Ice Palace, this
00:25:23and many other important facts can be read
00:25:27in Piroska Talpaló's excellent little lexicon of Túrkeve,
00:25:30as well as that the pride of Túrkeve, the thermal
00:25:33water of the spa, was found
00:25:37in 1951 while searching for oil and gas, when instead
00:25:40of the expected hydrocarbons, 75-degree water
00:25:43erupted to the surface.
00:25:46The more than 700-year-old settlement now has 11
00:25:50inhabitants, who have to fight for increasingly
00:25:53limited employment opportunities. The former
00:25:57city of the Nagykun district, now neighboring
00:25:59and increasingly dominant in the region,
00:26:02Mezőtúr, tries to maintain its traditions
00:26:05and showcase its
00:26:07values.
00:26:09In the last century, Túrkeve was still a typical waterside
00:26:12settlement. The Berettyó, originally called Túr,
00:26:16turned with a large bend below the town and almost
00:26:19reached the main square. Sometimes even further. The last
00:26:23devastating flood was recorded
00:26:25in 1879. The regulation completed
00:26:29in 1896 straightened the river below the town.
00:26:37We are now at the Balai Bridge in Túrkeve, and from here
00:26:41we will continue along the Berettyó embankment
00:26:44into the wilderness, led by Teacher Albert Tóth. We follow
00:26:47the blue sign. Where does the blue sign come from and where does it go?
00:26:51The blue sign starts from the border of Mezőtúr
00:26:55from the Hortobágy Berettyó's estuary
00:26:58sluice gate. First it goes on the right bank's
00:27:02protective embankment. At the Balai Bridge it crosses to the left bank's
00:27:04protective embankment. If we continue our journey here,
00:27:08we will touch a part of the Hortobágy Berettyó's given
00:27:12section, which was not particularly
00:27:15altered during the flood regulations. We walk along huge
00:27:19river bends, in the inner
00:27:22part of which we find intact, unaltered
00:27:25backwaters, which we will look at one by one.
00:27:28So let's start on the left bank embankment, the blue.
00:27:32Where we are now,
00:27:36is a huge, hairpin-like bend,
00:27:39a ring-shaped oxbow. Here the river
00:27:42turns for at least 4 km so that it almost
00:27:46returns to its original branching point, like
00:27:49a ring, like a ring. And
00:27:52from there a new oxbow starts the
00:27:56huge winding, the forest on the other
00:27:59side and the farm building in front of it. is already in another
00:28:02oxbow, in the Terezi oxbow.
00:28:05Soon we will reach an embankment
00:28:08one kilometer long, which has not
00:28:11only a story, but also a history.
00:28:14In the flat plain around Dévaványa,
00:28:17we are forced to climb a hill,
00:28:20we are climbing a dike or trench
00:28:23that rises a few meters, about three to four
00:28:27meters high, from the terrain.
00:28:29This trench, which the locals
00:28:32call the Devil's Ditch, was built
00:28:36more than a thousand years ago. Teacher, what is
00:28:39its history? Well, we know very precisely
00:28:43from the work of historians
00:28:46and archaeologists that it was built by the Sarmatians
00:28:50between 322 and 332.
00:28:52They were
00:28:55a populous tribe in this plain.
00:28:58And at the instigation of the
00:29:00Romans. they erected this enormous
00:29:04earthwork defense against threatening Dacic
00:29:07incursions. Archaeologists claim that no similar
00:29:11earthwork system developed in Europe during antiquity, as
00:29:14ez. The vegetation of this rampart has also quite settled from the
00:29:17wild. Yes, because here around us, in this extensive
00:29:20great plain salt steppes
00:29:24can be found. The former Kubik pit is already overgrown with sedge and
00:29:28bulrush vegetation. And this is the guardian of that once
00:29:31already existing steppe vegetation, which we call loess steppes.
00:29:35We are
00:29:39approaching our final destination, Dévaványa, located at the edge of Nagysárét.
00:29:42The watery, marshy environment provided
00:29:45protection and food for the inhabitants. According to
00:29:48traditions, thanks to its environment, Vanya
00:29:52survived the Turkish times as a rare exception
00:29:56in the Great Plain. The structure of the eight and a
00:29:59half thousand strong settlement is built.
00:30:05Its cultural heritage is much more modest than that of the previous two
00:30:08cities, but Dévaványa also strives to preserve
00:30:12and create its intellectual image,
00:30:15for example, with an excellent functioning library and a tourist
00:30:18information center.
00:30:22Only the names of parts of the village and nearby
00:30:26border names remind us of the former
00:30:29watery world, which reached the church before the drainage.
00:31:04I would ask Uncle Imre to pick up and show us objects
00:31:08that were characteristic of this region, the
00:31:12Sárét. Please show us
00:31:15tools, objects, yes,
00:31:17yes.
00:31:19will talk about
00:31:22I'll take out this reed cutter. What letter
00:31:26is on it? B, b letter. This
00:31:29means it belongs to Beretzki Imre. My grandfather
00:31:31was the second Beretzki. The other
00:31:35larger object is a reed gatherer,
00:31:38with which they pushed reeds.
00:31:41Yes, they pushed with this. And here...
00:31:45it had two arms,
00:31:47and the reeds fell between its two arms
00:31:51when the reed cutter
00:31:53pushed. Here, 200 meters
00:31:57from us, is that house which is completely
00:32:00thatched, and it also has an ocsú
00:32:03on it. What is an ocsú, since it came up? It was
00:32:07at the end of the house during the Turkish
00:32:11era. It was placed on houses during the Turkish era.
00:32:15And here,
00:32:161839
00:32:19indicates that it was built then, but
00:32:23even in my childhood, there were many such
00:32:26Reformed houses, because Catholic houses
00:32:30had crosses. What we see here is the result of 40 years of
00:32:34collecting. This is 62, and this
00:32:37year, it can be hoped that there will be a small exhibition from this. Well,
00:32:40we'll see, yes,
00:32:42yes.
00:32:53Researching traditional crafts, we found a profession
00:32:56that relatively few people practice today, but
00:33:00without which the entire Great Plain architecture, or more simply
00:33:03put, the tradition of building dwellings would be
00:33:06worthless. We are glad to see that modern buildings are also
00:33:10made of adobe. Béla Nagy knows the
00:33:14secrets of adobe making. What you're doing now is the
00:33:17first phase of making adobe bricks, that's right, this is the first
00:33:21phase. We sprinkle the bottom of the pit thinly
00:33:24with straw, and then we spread
00:33:27the earth.
00:33:31I see you always pour the water in one place, why? So
00:33:34the water is so that it doesn't compress the earth, it's easier
00:33:38for me to work it through, well, like
00:33:41with mortar, ultimately, you first break up the lime. The longer
00:33:44the straw, the better,
00:33:48the stronger the adobe, it has a greater
00:33:50bond.
00:33:59This is good when you get it right, and
00:34:02then
00:34:04here,
00:34:07and then when a few days pass, again, it dries
00:34:11a little, then it can be put into
00:34:15this mold. We left Dévaványa's most famous
00:34:18attraction for last, which every other report usually
00:34:22starts with: the great bustard reserve, which now operates
00:34:26as part of the Körös-Maros National Park. Antal Szél
00:34:29this peculiar bird.
00:34:31We are talking about a large bird, as a
00:34:33mature male weighs 15-18 kg. 22 kg was
00:34:37measured as the maximum male weight in the Carpathian Basin. Consequently,
00:34:40it is obviously difficult to keep this large bird in the air. It has
00:34:44thick but hollow bone structure,
00:34:48and this allows it to ascend up to even a thousand
00:34:51meters in altitude. This is especially significant when, due to
00:34:54the diminished food availability in winter, a migration
00:34:58starts in a south-southwesterly direction, reaching the
00:35:02Po Valley in Northern Italy, Albania, and even as far as Sicily.
00:35:05However, around the breeding and wintering grounds,
00:35:08it makes short flights, usually at altitudes below 10-20 meters.
00:35:12It flies at 60 km/h.
00:35:16Here at the Réhely Exhibition Center
00:35:19of the National Park, those who have the desire and time
00:35:23can thoroughly get acquainted with both the landscape
00:35:27and the bird. The exhibition,
00:35:30friendly staff, and tourist accommodation
00:35:33await visitors every day except Monday.
00:35:36Our approximately
00:35:3835 km journey today, passing through Mezőtúr, Túrkeve, and
00:35:42Dévaványa, has ended.
00:35:45We hope we have succeeded in dispelling some of the
00:35:49unfortunate misconception that the Great Plain is a monotonous
00:35:52and boring region, because, as you have seen, it is full of
00:35:56treasures.
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