Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta
The cultural landscape of the Hortobágy Puszta consists of a vast area of plains and wetlands in eastern Hungary. Traditional forms of land use, such as the grazing of domestic animals, have been present in this pastoral society for more than two millennia.
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Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta is the biggest grassland that remained in Central Europe. Hortobágy is similar to a steppe, a grassy plain with cattle, sheep, oxen, horses, tended by herdsmen, and it provides habitat for various different species (342 bird species have been registered to appear).
The landscape features the following manmade structures:
- Early Bronze Age burial mounds (kurgans)
- low mounds (tells) that mark the sites of ancient settlements
- bridges, among which the Nine Arch Bridge (the longest stone bridge in Hungary)
- csárdas (18th and 19th century provincial inns for travellers)
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