Eger is a nice and small town located in eastern Hungary, famous for its Castle, its Cathedral, and most of all for the production of some of the better Hungarian wines( together with Tokaji region).
to be honest, this famous Castle was maybe momentarily absent when we reached it.
in fact just a few external walls on the top of the Castle Hill still stand, and a small and a little sad museum. what's really special up there is the amazing view on the city of Eger, which is pretty rare in the flat and plain Hungarian territory. i enjoyed the feeling of the spring sun on my white wintery skin, and the wind blowing on Eger hills.
i enjoyed less the theft of my adorable, new smartphone, which somehow happened there.
it's amazing how the people of my generation (including me) can feel TRULY lost without something connecting us to the world. i tried my best to recover from this huge loss (most of all of my beloved SD Card full of my photos, videos and downloads, my Italian SIM as well as the Hungarian one) and enjoy the rest of the trip.
the centre of Eger is nice. it felt like a quiet, regular, clean place... if this town is to be compared to a person, it would be a lovely catholic grandpa enjoying a glass (or more) of good wine in late afternoon.
we visited also the famous Cathedral.... sometimes, and this is one of these times, i'm really sorry to be Italian. when i enter into churches all over the world, i never get impressed.
i appreciate them. i enjoy the frescoes, and the huge barrel organs, the statues and the atmosphere.
but i just can't get really impressed. like when you can't talk not because it's forbidden but because the beauty of the place can actually silence you.
truth is that my Country has the most amazingly beautiful churches that i have ever seen.
but since i'm waiting to visit more churches in France, the competition is still open.
finally we went to the so called Szepasszony-Volgy "the Valley of the Beautiful Women" , one kilometer away from the city center. in Szepasszony there are dozens of wine-cellars carved in the hills stone.
the twilight lightened softly Eger hills, in a dreamy air. i liked very much walking up to the Valley.
once arrived there i appreciated why Hungarians love this particular place.
as i mentioned, it's a place full of small, stone-carved, and old fashioned looking wine cellars, one after the other. you can enter into each one of them, if you just have a whole afternoon to dedicate to this endeavour, and a very high resistance to alcohol.
moreover, a glass of Rosè, Chardonnay, Kékfrankos, Cabernet, Merlot, Kékoportó, costs around 200 Ft, less than 1 euro.
i went around the Valley with a troop of other Erasmus students determined to mix every kind of wine.
usually you can find also heavy Hungarian dishes offered in the wine- cellars, and some nibbles resembling very much Spanish tapas, to help you resist to the alcohol effects as long as possible.
they call the various wine-cellars by their civic number, not by the name written on the wooden signs outside the cellars. the best one we had the chance to try was the number 43.
the setting was preciously decorated, there was a ceramic Stube heating the cellar. the tapas served were delicious, but more importantly there were old Hungarian musicians playing gipsy music with violins and an instrument that i really could not classify.... an hybrid between a piano and a very big xylophone. i promised myself to figure it out, but Google can't read images in the reasearch window.
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