Egerbakta: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Nature

The Egerbakta peat bog lakes are considered a rare and protected natural phenomenon. The lakes were placed under protection in 1978.

The freely accessible educational trail “Baktató tanösvény” begins in front of the house at Tóvölgy u. 2 in Egerbakta and presents the animal and plant life of the Egerbakta peat bog depressions, the history of research into them and hypotheses about their formation, as well as the nature conservation value of the surrounding Natura 2000 area. The Egerbakta peat bog lakes themselves can be reached from the village in about 20 minutes on foot and are freely accessible. All three lakes can be circumnavigated along the educational trail: the third lake, Felső-tó, is visible, while the first two lakes are heavily overgrown with vegetation.

The Natura 2000 area “Egerbakta–Bátor környéki erdők” refers to the forests in the surroundings of Egerbakta and Bátor. On a hiking trail to the peat bog lakes stands Öregtölgy, a tree estimated to be around 700 years old, approximately 20 minutes’ walk from the village. It is just under 25 metres tall and has a diameter at breast height of 625 cm.

Anyone considering Egerbakta as a travel destination can plan to rent a holiday apartment there.

Hiking

The Egerbaktai Piros-túra begins in Egerbakta in the Heves-Borsod hill country and reaches the Bükk Mountains after 10 km at Eger-Almár.

Culture

Construction of the Roman Catholic Church of Alexandriai Szent Katalin in Egerbakta began in 1773. At the gable corners of the church are Rococo stone vases created in 1775 by the Eger sculptor Antal Steinhauser.

The vicarage below the church hill is a listed building and a detached or street-fronted, single-storey residential building from the late 18th century.

Further local pages: Noszvaj, Egerszalók, Novaj, Szarvaskő, Demjén, Verpelét, Egerszólát, Kerecsend

For the higher-level travel overview: Egri.