Village with 621 inhabitants 17 km northwest of Hatvan in the foreground of the hills of Cserhát. Baroque church on Gothic foundations on a hill, donated by Antal Szentmiklóssy, 1746. Lutheran belfry. A "village of castles": Kubinyi mansion (1820), Végh mansion (1820), Szentmiklóssy-Kubinyi mansion (Baroque, 1770, now housing the rest-house of the Hungrian Academy of Sciences). Elemér Halász's mansion (housing a day-nursery), with park under protection, visitors admitted. |