🏛️ Village of Hollókő

Hungary · Europe · Cultural · 47.98°N, 19.75°E

Hollókő is a village in northern Hungary, located in Nógrád County. The village, which was constructed in the 13th century and developed in the 18th and 19th centuries, is a well-preserved ethnographic village of the Palóc people, with traditional wooden architecture and layout of buildings, farms, and orchards. Because of its exceptional preservation and testimony to rural life before the arrival of modern farming practices, the village was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. Its name means "Raven-stone" in Hungarian.

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Quick facts

Country	Hungary
Continent / region	Europe
List type	🏛️ Cultural heritage site
Coordinates (approx.)	47.98°N, 19.75°E · view on map

Village of Hollókő is a cultural World Heritage site in Hungary, in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Village of Hollókő was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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