Tourist's Guide [antikvár]

THE LAND OF 7RADITIONAL HOSPITALITY AND NATÜRAL MiRACLES Hungary's beautiful landscapes, her historic buildings and monuments, watering-places and health resorts, Budapest, the city of batns, the Laké Balaton and the old towns of historical importance have always been att-racting visitors from abroad. The inner part of the country is a vast plain traversed by a number of rivers and covered with woods abounding in game. The country is so pleasant and beautiful by nature, the land is so rich that we may rightly call it the Eden of tourists. The plain land lying between the Danube and the mountains is fiat, interrupted by caírns of the migration period. On the plain between the Danube and the Tisza river hills and hillocks had been built by the wind-driven quícksand of the river beds. This part of the country had been covered with quicksands before the soil was bound. Today vineyards, orchards of the world-famous apricot, rye-fields and vegetable gardens are manifesting Man's victory over Nature. In the alluvial soil of the rivers and in the inter-glacial loess-soil the Hungárián red wheat is grown, Owing to the 2000 or more sunny hours a year, the excellent Hungárián wheat contains a favourable proportion of gluten. Among the vegetables the sweet pepper („paprika") is the most famous, abounding in vitamin C. In summer on a considerable part of the still saliferous lands vast fields are to be seen with rice, waving in the wind. The water of the Tisza river has recently been diverted into broad canals. An area is supplied with water by these canals that had been occupied by the sea in ancient times. The Hortobágy, once a saliferous, barren pasture, the medieval remnant of wandering shepherds, has been turnéd into fertile arable land, with rice-fields and grazing ground. The settlements of the Hungárián Plain are peaceful market-towns with broad streets and farms, now concentrating into viilages. The bigger towns, however, are continuously developing, witír their ever-expcnding Industries. Szeged, the metropolis of the Tisza river is a cultural centre cs weil. Debrecen, the centre of the area embraced by the huge bend of the Tisza, is alsó an university town. The ranges of the 400 km long Hungárián Central Mountains extend in a diagonal direction. Their left wing, the Transdanubian Central Mountains, spread from the western corner of the Laké Balaton to the bend of the Danube. They consist mainly of iime stone and dolomité,