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Daily News Hungary Daily News Hungary · 01/03/2022
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One of Hungary’s most modern tourist attractions to open soon

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Bükki Csillagda

Photo: Facebook.com/bukkicsillagda

Bükk National Park is located in the Bükk Mountains in Northern Hungary near Miskolc. It was the third national park established in the country and it has a total of over 431 km2 area dotted with forests and mountaintops.

It is one of the best locations to build an observatory available to the public and tourists, and starting from early March this year, it will finally be realised after the inauguration of the Bükki Csillagda.

The Bükki Csillagda will be one of the newest tourist attractions of the Bükk National Park and it will be the most modern and most anticipated educational centres of natural sciences in Hungary, Funzine reports.

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The Bükki Csillagda observatory and planetarium were planned after the nomination of the Bükk National Park to the list of International Dark Parks by the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) in 2017.

Bükki Csillagda
Photo: Facebook.com/bukkicsillagda
Bükki Csillagda
Photo: Facebook.com/bukkicsillagda

Bükki Csillagda
Photo: Facebook.com/bukkicsillagda
Bükki Csillagda
Photo: Facebook.com/bukkicsillagda

IDA is a US-based non-profit organisation that wants to “preserve and protect the night-time environment and our heritage of dark skies through quality outdoor lighting”.

The Bükk National Park is the third Hungarian park to ever receive this title followed by Hortobágy National Park, the first national park of Hungary, and the Zselic National Landscape Protection Area.

In 2018, the first designs for the observatory were drawn and the Hungarian government had supported the idea with nearly 1 billion forints (€ 2.7 million).

Bükki Csillagda
Photo: Facebook.com/bukkicsillagda
Bükki Csillagda
Photo: Facebook.com/bukkicsillagda

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The construction started in 2020 and at the end of last year, the dome of the visitor centre was placed on the building.

The Bükki Csillagda observatory, educational centre and planetarium opening on 8th March, on the day of international women’s day, offers a plethora of exciting programmes for visitors:

  • Learn about the secrets of the night sky
  • Get a glimpse of the world of meteorites and light phenomena
  • Attend a virtual space travel
  • 5D depiction of the universe
  • Admiring the night sky with the observatory
Bükki Csillagda

Photo: Facebook.com/bukkicsillagda

One of the main attractions of the exhibition within the centre is a 32-kilogram iron meteorite.

It is the most modern exhibition of its kind and in addition to the observatory, visitors can wander around the local forest and attend a 4 kilometres long educational pathway including the model of our solar system, says the location’s Facebook page.

Bükki Csillagda

Photo: Facebook.com/bukkicsillagda

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Source: Funzine.hu, Facebook

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