Sz�zhalombatta: Where There Is Always Something Happening

Recognizing the geographical situation and the fascinating beauty of the region, groups of people have already settled in this area four thousand years ago in the Neolithic Age. On the plateau stretching over the River Danube in the Old Town, the population of the Bronze Age built an earthwork, the defence of which was ensured by the river in the north-east, by the deep valley in the south and by a rampart in the west. The earthwork was inhabited for almost six hundred years, the layers of the settlements deposited on one another amount to a depth of up to six meters. This is the so called tell settlement. In the 7-6th centuries B.C. it is the easter branch of the Hallstatt-culture that appeared in the region. The burrial place of the significant persons of the culture?s population is the tumulus graveyard with its 120 mounds. The six-hectar territory presently functions as an Archeological Park. It is in this pre-historic open-air museum, unique in the whole of Europe, that the 2,700-year-old tumulus was excavated, reconstructed and inaugurated in April, 1998 by the Prime Minister of Hungary, �rp�d G�ncz. In the tumulus, the remains of a crypt can be viewed accompanied by a spectacular multi-media presentation. With the help of sound and light effects, the visitors can get acquainted with the funeral rite and beliefs of the era.

From: Website of the city