Pilis (mountains)

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Pilis
View over Dorog to the east to the Pilis Mountains

View over Dorog to the east to the Pilis Mountains

Highest peak Pilis ( 756  m )
location Pest / Komárom-Esztergom counties , Hungary
part of Hungarian Central Mountains
Pilis (Hungary)
Pilis
Coordinates 47 ° 44 '  N , 18 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 44 '  N , 18 ° 55'  E
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Location in Hungary

The Pilis (pronounced: Pilisch ) or Pilis Mountains is the easternmost part of the Hungarian Central Mountains .

location

It is located on the western side of the Danube between Budapest and Esztergom in Pest and Komárom-Esztergom counties . The main peak is the 756 m high Pilis mountain . The mountains are divided by the Kétbükkfa-nyereg (“two-beech saddle”) and the Szentlélek-patak valley (“Heilig Geist Bach” valley).

The neighboring Visegrád Mountains are often incorrectly referred to as part of the Pilis in colloquial language, but geographically it already belongs to the northern Hungarian low mountain range .

The name of the low mountain range is derived from the old word for tonsure , which means pilis in Hungarian . This is what the formerly bare mountain peak was called.

In the Middle Ages it was part of the famous Buda wine-growing region. The grapes were planted on the unwooded slopes of the Pilis. Today's forests emerged later.

Summit over 600 m

  • Pilis or Pilis-tető , 756 m
  • Nagy-Bodzás-hegy , 717 m
  • Nagy-Szoplák , 710 m
  • Kis-Szoplák , 686 m
  • Vaskapu-hegy , 651-645 m (not to be confused with the Esztergomi vaskapu ("Graner Iron Gate"))

More to be named peaks are the Kevélyek and known to climbers Oszoly .

Important caves

  • Sátorkőpusztai Cave, Esztergom
  • Legénybarlang ("Burschenhöhle")
  • Leánybarlang ("girl's cave ")

See also

photos

  • The Pilis Mountains from Nagy Kevély seen from

  • Hypostyle hall in the Sátorkőpusztai cave

  • Pilis peak with the village of Pilisszántó

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