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Géza Gárdonyi Memorial House
Géza Gárdonyi’s house is open to the public even today. Be a guest at the writer, experience the special atmosphere of the house and admire the big carved table where, besides many other novels, the world famous novel Stars of Eger (title of the English version: Eclipse of the Crescent Moon) was also born! Géza Gárdonyi lived in this house from 1897 to 1922.
The property, which used to be at the edge of the town at that time was love at first time for the writer, he felt at once that he wanted to live only here and he insisted to it. The admiration was mostly for the site, which is understandable if you stand in the garden and look around from there: next to you is the castle, below is the town and in the distance there are the peaks of the Mátra mountains.
Magictower
Arriving at the waiting room you can get to know the determining rules of our Solar system, the beginning of space travel, the first Moon-landing crew. Some pictures are of 3D effect, holding your mobilephone in front of them, they become dimensional. You can see how a spaceship is built up, what its parts are and you can learn that in the Ancient Times the planets revolving around the Sun were believed to be gods. There is a playhouse for children here: there are presentations about robots, engines and electric circuits, everything can be dismantled and rebuilt!
Archdiocese library
The Archdiocese Library of Eger was established by Károly Eszterházy in 1793, already from the beginning it was meant to be public, very rare at that time. The opening had been preceeded by thorough book collection since the second half of the 1760s, when professors were asked to make lists of literature they wished or to search for and buy them for the library. The institution finally opened with 16000 volumes. Several private collections melted into the stock of the library, also Károly Eszterházy’s after his death. By now the total collection of the library has grown to 170 thousand volumes.
Sources: blog.arrivalguides.com; visiteger.com; heidelbergcement.com
