Villány
The Wine Museum (8 Bem utca) acquaints visitors with the wine culture along the Villány-Siklósi wine route, the first of its kind in Hungary, connecting 11 settlements in a protected wine-growing area. The October festival of red wines, held every two years, is geared towards publicising popular Villány wines, including blue Oporto, Merlot, Blue Franc and Cabernet. In the former lime pit on Templom ('Church') Hill the fossils of 240-year-old primordial animals, called ammonites, can be seen. Szársomlyó in Nagyharsány, 6 km away and featuring cliffs in striking shapes, is the protected habitat of indigenous flora and fauna unique to Hungary. Among them are the 'angry' water-snake (colubridae) and the secretary hawk as well as crocuses which bloom in January. There is an open-air collection comprising the statues of the past 30 years on the hillside, which doubles as an 'artists studio'.
