Five historic castles involved in Hungarian-Slovak cross-border co-operation

Five historic castles once owned by the Hungarian Andrassy noble family will be involved in a Hungarian-Slovak cross-border co-operation project to promote cultural tourism in the area.

[MTI] The European Union's Interreg programme has financed a year-long preparatory project which involved the preparation of a study about the castles and their potential utilisation.

An international conference was held in Nyiregyhaza in northeast Hungary on Tuesday marking the end of the project.

The castles of Tiszadob and Monok in Hungary and the castles of Betliar, Krasnohorske Podhradie and Trebisov in Slovakia will be included in the Andrassy cultural route, which is expected to receive the European Cultural Route title in the long term.

The facility managers of the castles involved signed a declaration of intent for co-operation and they were joined by the local council of Sancraieni from Transylvania, the Andrassy family's original home.