Mackaluk

Between May 24-26 the Ipolytarnoc Fossils joins the Film Festival of Gödöllő, by screening a selection of the best works from the 5th International Nature Film Festival.

Az Ipolytarnóci Ősmaradványok a Geopark különleges geológiai értékeit mutatja be az érdeklődőknek.

Felsőtárkány – Vár Hill Nature Trail

This nature trail takes visitors from the Nyugati kapu Educational and Visitor Centre of the Bükk National Park Directorate up to the ridge of the Vár (Castle) Hill. The total length of this nature trail from the beginning of the Kő-köz is 10 km, which requires 4-5 hours of walking. During this route one can learn about various geological formations (dolomite quarry, radiolarite rocks), the living world of sub-mountainous beech-woods, acidophile

Oak-woods and lime slope forests as well as a fortress of the late Bronze Age, an earth motte of the Kyjatice culture.

From the starting information board located in the centre of the village of Szarvaskő, the northern wing of the nature trail leads to the Vár Crag and subsequently to a pike of the Tardos Crag called Akasztó (back and forth: 2.4 km). Stations No. 6, 7, 8 and 9 give an introduction to the typical rock exposures of the gorge valley of the Eger Stream (schist, diabase, deep-sea pillow lava) whereas station No. 10 draws attention to the panorama seen from the Castle of Szarvaskő built in the 13^th century. The information board of station No. 11 demonstrates the living world of the siliceous grasslands of the Akasztó Hill. The ring-road designated to the south of the village (6.4 km) goes through the Mocene crag outcrop of the Hegyes-kő lane, the Denevér Adit (wehrlite body) and the Quarry of Tó-bérc. The information board of this latter geological exhibition site presents the diallage rock intrusion intruded into the deep-sea sedimentary complex formed during the Mid-Jurassic about 166 million years ago.