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58. Szent István Street, H-7815 Harkány, Hungary |
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Dear Guest!
Welcome You in one of Hungary's most significant spa resorts. The neighbourhood has a geat historical past and it is abounding in things to see. The wine district and Harkányfürdő which has been built and developed near to the two thousand year old Pécs have been welcoming and receiving guests for almost two hundred years.
I wish You and Your family, Your friends and acquaintances a pleas ant holiday and a recovery.
The town of Harkány is located in the southern part of Baranya county, in the valley of River Dráva. The Reformed Church built in 1802 declared to be a public historic monument and the Catholic Church built in the 1990s are located in the city's main street.
The Mayor's Office and the Tourinform Office are also can be found in Kossuth Lajos Street beside the excellent hotel and restaurants.
The opened stage built in 1999 is situated in the natural park. It is one of events of the summer festival. The Harka fountain made of Zsolnay material set up in 2000 is also situated here.
The Statue of St. Steven erected in the honour of the foundation of the kingdom in Hungary is located in the park near the Catholic church and the Nillenium Orb Splashing can be found in front of the building of the Mayor's Office.
Its name was first mentioned in a document dated back in 1323 as Nagh Harkan. By tradition, the miraculous effect of the water was first experienced in 1823 by a peasant, János Pogány of Gyüd who was relieved of his shooting footsore in the marshlands near Harkány, where he had been working for days as a canal digger.
Although the thermal water of Harkány was known during the Turkish occupation, the first beathing season dates back to 1824 when 1400 bathers visited the bath built by he Batthyány family. In 1828, he first hotel was built in Harkány.
The thermal bath and the open-air swimming pool with a 180-year history has become a well-established holiday place all around the world. The speciál medical water with its high sulphide and trace element content is suitable for treating all types of locomotor disorders, other gynaecological and gastric problems through bathingh, mud packing and drinking therapy.
The renewed watering-place offers a surface of 2098 m2 to 2500 guest. On the second floor of the hydrotherapic establishment the roof, which can be moved with electro motors, is situated above Jacuzzis, bubble baths, gas chambers and saunas. Tangentor, nature medicine, electro therapy, medical and reflex massage, as well as mud-cure can also be found among the medical services.
Contests of the medical water
| Sodium | 160 mg/l |
| Potassium | 15 mg/l |
| Ammonium | 2,9 mg/l |
| Calcium | 53,4 mg/l |
| Magnesium | 20 mg/l |
| Cations: | 251,3 mg/l |
| Chloride | 108 mg/l |
| Bromide | 0,40 mg/l |
| Iodide | 0,13 mg/l |
| Fluoride | 1,1 mg/l |
| Hydrogen-carbonate | 525 mg/l |
| Sulfid | 13 mg/l |
| Phosphate | 0,1 mg/l |
| Anions: | 641,73 mg/l |
In the lido there are two open-air pools, a partially covered, a children's pool, a fifty-meter and a stretched surface pool and a giant slide. Due to the latest water revolving and cleaning equipment, the official authorities qualified the Harkány lido as the bath having the cleanest water in Hangary.
The thermal bath and open-air swimming pool of Harkány is the place for families. Its pools, saunas, Jacuzzis, the park on 13,5 hectares and other covered leisure places give pleasure and relaxation for all.
The majority of medical services are provided by the Baranya Country Thermal Bath Hospital founded in 1954. It is located nearby the thermal bath int he natural park of the town. The hospital has both a balneological and physiotherapic department with traditional and the most modern treatment types.
The development of the settlement, which became a town in 1999, has been ceaseless since the political system change. Today it has over one million guests a year. Twelve hotels of three or four-star, 11 pensions of similar categories, two camping places, over 1300 haliday hauses and hundreds of family houses offer accommodation for visitors.
Several of the restaurants of Harkány are considered as the best in Hungary. Among the culinary range of the town countless local specialities can be found beside the continental and traditional Hungarian ones.
The events of the town and the lido involving fomous (also local) participants offer a quality relaxation to both domistic and forcign visitors and to all age-groups throughout the whole year.
Annual events are the "Exorcising Day" , the, "Cultural Meeting of Southern Transdanubian German Minority Groups" , the put-up of the may-tree, the dancing-out of the May-tree, the "Whitsun Festival" , the "Harkány Bath Festival" , the "Long Weekend in Harkány", the " Harkány Vintage Festival". Every week-end from June till September programmes and balls are organised ont he open-air stage.
Villány: The most definitive city of the wine region was aplace for wineculture since the Celtic and Roman period. During the last decadewineculturists of Villány developed European-level wineyards, mixing the ancient knowledge and modern technology.
Siklós: The most famous sight of Baranya county's Southest city is the castle which is one of the country's most well-preserved fortified castles.
Pécs: The centre of Baranya county is located within 25 kilometers from Harkány, int he foot of the highest chain of the Mesek Mountains. Its museum, galleries, munuments theatre and world-famous schools make it one of the most significant cultural centre and the most beautiful city of our country.
I wish You and Your family, Your friends and acquaintances a pleas ant holiday and a recovery.
Nándor Panghy and his family
www.harkany-szallas.uw.hu
The Harkány – legend
Once upon a time et the feet of the Szársomlyó ( the highest ponint of the Villány mountains ) lived an old woman, a witch who had a beatiful daughter. She attracted the attention of the Devil himself and he wanted to marry her at any dreaming of a king for her daughter. Fherefore she put th devil on his mettle, which – as she thought – could not be passed.
"You may marry ma doughter if you plough and crop with wheat the whole hillside during one night. You may work until the first cock crow can be heard from the village" – said the witch to the devil.
The devil set work after sunset. He put two donkeys, two cooks and two cats to his plough and made way quichly. The mother was very impatient and watched the devil how he was going on. She was scared seeing the devil almost finishing his task, therefore she had to figure out something quickly, to avoid seeing her beloved duaghter in the devil's arms. She quickly ran into the first henhouse and started to crow. The devil was totally shockeds the Villány mountain today. Then he started to run and run and where he stopped and went under the ground the Harkány hot water welled up.
According to the legend who drinks enough from the Villány wine, will be able to see the witch's doughter again.
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