NEWS

13. Vinalies Internationales 2007

Hungarian successes at the world competition

Garamvári Vencel became the "Wine-Grower of 2006"

Meeting of the Wine-Growers of the Carpathian Basin »
Wine-growing decreased in Alsace »
Austrians are patriots in wine drinking »

PROGRAMS

Harvest Festival of Tokaj-Hegyalja - 2005

30 September - 2 October 2005

Mediterranean autumn – Red wine festival

30. September - 2. Oktober 2005

10th European Convivial Wine Song Festival

23-25 September 2005

HUNGARIAN WINE

The Hungarian wine

Ibn-Rostech, the Arabian writer mentions Hungarian vine growing already in his Xth century chronicle. Vine growing and wine production after the Original Settlement of the Magyars was based upon three things: the Greek-Celtic tradition, the Roman tradition, and the knowledge of the Hungarians brought along from the East...

HORSES

Equestrian traditions

No doubt, the Hungarians belong to the equestrian nations of Eurasia. Our ancestors coming from the East have not only brought along a highly developed equestrian culture, but also agricultural skills of high standard, iron-smelting methods corresponding to the level of the age and goldsmith's art admirable even today...

MONUMENTS

Monuments

Church fortresses in Transylvania - The free peasant status of the Székely people, who had been settled here in the bend of the Carpathian mountains in Transylvania's eastern and south-eastern mountain regions as part of the Hungarian confederation of tribes, was guaranteed by constant military obligations...

PUBLICATIONS

Publications

The Hungarian Wine »
Hungarian wine regions: Villány »
An equestrian nation from an equestrian people »

LINKS

Wine and Gastronomy

Useful links

Horses

Music, artists

Link collections - link exchange

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