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Spring Festival in Hortobágy – PHOTOS
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Despite the cool weather, several people traveled to Hortobágy on Saturday to witness the plain’s great spring-opening event, the driving festival of Saint George’s Day, at the pillars of the Nine-holed Bridge, according to hirado.hu.
Both director of Hortobágy National Park (HNP) Zita Kovács and manager of Hortobágyi Nonprofit Ltd. Árpád Gergely emphasized that they organize the driving festival of Saint George’s Day and the crafts fair, titled “World Heritage, the Day of the Plains”, for the first time. The event is focuses on the traditional driving out of the cattle in the spring.
MTI Photo: Zsolt Czeglédi
Hollókő is the honored guest this year
Zita Kovács states that the event draws people’s attention to the plains as a site of the world heritage, so it is worthily connected to the International Day of Monuments and Sites and to the cultural heritage and sustainable tourism program of ICOMOS (UNESCO’s International Council on Monuments and Sites).
“According to the plans, a site of the World Heritage will be invited as a guest of honor each year: this year it will be Hollókő,” Zita Kovács claimed.
Folk tradition counted the beginning of spring from Saint George’s Day
