Hajós, the town of wine cellars

According to femina.hu, a long weekend is not enough to discover everything the small but beautiful town of Hajós has to offer. Hajós is a small Hungarian town in Bács-Kiskun County, Hungary, which is famous for its wine cellars and the huge variety of wines one can taste there.

Hajós is a quiet little town with 3000 residents, an ideal place for a long weekend getaway. The town has something special with which it stands out of the many wonderful towns where one can try famous Hungarian wines: the so-called pincefalu (cellar village).

Cellar village

A relatively big part of the town (24 streets) consists of wine cellars only, which is almost considered to be a settlement on its own: the cellar village. Approximately 1200-1300 wine cellars are located in this cellar village, which makes it the biggest “row of wine cellars” in Hungary.

Wine production in Hajós started in the 1700’s. By the 1800’s, there were more than 850 wine cellars in the town, and wine tourism started to provide the majority of the income for the people of Hajós. In the beginning, guests were accommodated in the hosts’ own homes, but this tradition later changed, and guesthouses were built.