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city guide","hw_hub_city_hero_h1":"Things To Do In Eger","hw_hub_city_hero_intro":"A baroque town under a castle that held off an Ottoman army, with a horseshoe valley of wine cellars cut into the rock on its edge.","hw_hub_city_hero_image":"1303988","hw_hub_city_hero_overlay":"light","hw_hub_city_hero_cta":"Where to stay | #areas\r\nWhat it costs | #money","hw_hub_city_live_stats":"1","hw_hub_city_stats":"1552 | When 2,000 defenders held the castle against a far larger Ottoman force\r\n40 m | The minaret, the northernmost surviving in Europe\r\n2 hours | From Budapest by train","hw_hub_city_intro_title":"A siege, a baroque town and a valley of cellars","hw_hub_city_intro_body":"In 1552 the castle at Eger was defended by around two thousand people against an Ottoman army many times that size, and it held. The siege became the founding story of Hungarian resistance, taught in every school and the subject of the country's best-known historical novel.\r\n\r\nThe Ottomans took the town forty-four years later and stayed for ninety, which is why a forty-metre minaret still stands in the middle of a baroque Hungarian town \u2014 the northernmost surviving Ottoman minaret in Europe.\r\n\r\nWhat was built afterwards is the town you see now: a compact eighteenth-century centre of yellow and ochre facades around a large square, with the basilica at one end.\r\n\r\nOn the western edge is the Sz\u00e9passzony-v\u00f6lgy, the Valley of the Beautiful Women, where dozens of wine cellars are cut into the tufa rock in a horseshoe. You walk from door to door tasting. Egri Bikav\u00e9r, Bull's Blood, is the red the region is known for.\r\n\r\nOne night, two if you drink properly.","hw_hub_city_facts":"Getting in | Train from Budapest 2 hours, around 3,500 HUF (about \u20ac9)\r\nGetting around | The centre is walkable. The wine valley is 20 minutes on foot or a short taxi\r\nCurrency | Hungarian forint (HUF)\r\nThe wine valley | Cellars keep irregular hours. Afternoons and weekends are the safe bet\r\nCastle | Around 3,000\u20134,500 HUF (about \u20ac8\u201312) depending on which exhibitions you include\r\nLanguage | Hungarian. Less English here than in Budapest","hw_hub_city_areas_title":"Where to stay","hw_hub_city_areas_intro":"A small baroque centre with the castle above and the wine valley just west.","hw_hub_city_areas_map":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_zoom":"14","hw_hub_city_hostels_pins":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_live":"","hw_hub_city_areas":"Old town | First-timers | Around Dob\u00f3 Square: the baroque centre, the basilica, restaurants and everything walkable. | 47.9020 | 20.3740 |  | \nNear the wine valley | Drinking and value | West towards Sz\u00e9passzony-v\u00f6lgy: quieter guesthouses and a short walk back from the cellars. | 47.8960 | 20.3620 |  | ","hw_hub_city_itin_title":"How long have you got?","hw_hub_city_itin_intro":"The routes we would walk, in the order we would walk them.","hw_hub_city_itin":"","hw_hub_city_do_title":"Things to do in Eger","hw_hub_city_do_body":"The castle, around 3,000 to 4,500 HUF depending on what you include, sits above the town and holds the story of the 1552 siege along with casemates cut into the rock beneath it. The underground tour is the better part.\r\n\r\nClimb the minaret if you are not claustrophobic \u2014 it is forty metres, the staircase is a tight spiral barely wide enough for one person, and the entry fee is small. People turn back partway up more often than you would expect.\r\n\r\nThe basilica is the second-largest church in Hungary and free to enter, with organ recitals through the summer.\r\n\r\nThe Lyceum opposite has a frescoed library and an eighteenth-century camera obscura in the tower that still projects a live image of the town onto a table.\r\n\r\nThen walk to Sz\u00e9passzony-v\u00f6lgy. Around thirty cellars are cut into the rock around a horseshoe-shaped valley, most family-run, and a glass costs a few hundred forint. This is the reason most people stay the night.","hw_hub_city_do_points":"The castle | About \u20ac8\u201312, and the underground casemates are the best part\r\nThe minaret | Forty metres up a very tight spiral. Not for everyone\r\nThe camera obscura | An eighteenth-century live projection of the town\r\nSz\u00e9passzony-v\u00f6lgy | Thirty cellars in a horseshoe valley","hw_hub_city_do_tag":"things-to-do","hw_hub_city_do_more":"All things to do in Eger","hw_hub_city_free_title":"Free things to do in Eger","hw_hub_city_free_body":"The baroque old town and Dob\u00f3 Square cost nothing and are the main pleasure here.\r\n\r\nThe basilica is free to enter, and summer organ recitals are either free or very cheap.\r\n\r\nWalking up to the castle walls and around the outside is free \u2014 only entry to the grounds and exhibitions charges.\r\n\r\nThe walk out to Sz\u00e9passzony-v\u00f6lgy takes about twenty minutes and costs nothing; only the wine does.\r\n\r\nThe hills of the B\u00fckk National Park start at the edge of town, with marked trails and no entry fee.","hw_hub_city_free_points":"The old town | Free, and genuinely handsome\r\nThe basilica | Free, with cheap summer organ recitals\r\nThe walk to the wine valley | Twenty minutes, free\r\nB\u00fckk trails | Starting at the edge of town","hw_hub_city_free_tag":"free-things-to-do","hw_hub_city_free_more":"All free things to do in Eger","hw_hub_city_food_title":"Eating and drinking in Eger","hw_hub_city_food_body":"The wine is the point. Egri Bikav\u00e9r \u2014 Bull's Blood \u2014 is the famous red blend, named after a siege legend about defenders drinking wine so heavily stained that the Ottomans believed they were mixing it with bull's blood. Egri Csillag is the white blend and is arguably the better wine.\r\n\r\nIn the valley cellars a glass is a few hundred forint \u2014 often under \u20ac1 \u2014 and many will pour straight from the barrel. Take cash.\r\n\r\nA restaurant main in town is 3,500 to 6,000 HUF, about \u20ac9 to \u20ac15.\r\n\r\nHungarian food here is the standard repertoire done well: p\u00f6rk\u00f6lt, stuffed cabbage, goose, and freshwater fish.\r\n\r\nA beer is around 1,000 to 1,600 HUF, about \u20ac2.50 to \u20ac4.","hw_hub_city_food_points":"Egri Bikav\u00e9r | The famous red. Egri Csillag, the white, is often better\r\nCellar wine | Often under \u20ac1 a glass, poured from the barrel\r\nTake cash to the valley | Many cellars do not take cards\r\nA main in town | \u20ac9\u201315","hw_hub_city_food_tag":"food","hw_hub_city_food_more":"All food guides for Eger","hw_hub_city_nightlife_title":"Going out in Eger","hw_hub_city_nightlife_body":"The Valley of the Beautiful Women is the nightlife, and it is a particular kind. Around thirty cellars around a horseshoe valley, most of them small and family-run, and the evening consists of moving between them.\r\n\r\nSome are quiet rooms with a barrel and four chairs. Others have a band and tables outside. Prices are low enough that the limiting factor is your own judgement rather than your budget.\r\n\r\nIn town, Dob\u00f3 Square and the streets off it have bars, and a beer is \u20ac2.50 to \u20ac4.\r\n\r\nThere is a college in Eger and term time brings a student crowd, but this is a town of 50,000 and the evening is wine-shaped rather than club-shaped.\r\n\r\nWalk back or take a taxi \u2014 the valley is twenty minutes from the centre on foot and the road is unlit in places.","hw_hub_city_nightlife_points":"The valley is the nightlife | Thirty cellars, and you move between them\r\nVery cheap | Judgement is the limiting factor, not money\r\nIn town | Bars around Dob\u00f3 Square, beer \u20ac2.50\u20134\r\nGetting back | Twenty minutes on foot, and unlit in places","hw_hub_city_nightlife_tag":"nightlife","hw_hub_city_nightlife_more":"All nightlife guides for Eger","hw_hub_city_transport_title":"Getting around Eger","hw_hub_city_transport_body":"The old town is small and walkable, and the castle is a five-minute climb from the main square.\r\n\r\nSz\u00e9passzony-v\u00f6lgy is about twenty minutes on foot from the centre, slightly uphill on the way out and downhill coming back, which is the right way round.\r\n\r\nLocal buses cost a few hundred forint and taxis within town are cheap \u2014 worth taking back from the valley at night.\r\n\r\nTrains from Budapest take about two hours and cost around 3,500 HUF (about \u20ac9), running several times a day.\r\n\r\nEger works well as an overnight stop between Budapest and eastern Hungary or Slovakia, and the B\u00fckk hills are immediately north for walking.","hw_hub_city_transport_points":"Walk the centre | The castle is five minutes from the main square\r\nThe wine valley | Twenty minutes on foot, downhill on the way back\r\nBudapest | Two hours by train, about \u20ac9\r\nTaxi back at night | Cheap, and the valley road is unlit","hw_hub_city_transport_tag":"transport","hw_hub_city_transport_more":"All transport guides for Eger","hw_hub_city_money_title":"What Eger costs","hw_hub_city_money_body":"Cheap, even by Hungarian standards. Beds are \u20ac12 to \u20ac28, a main \u20ac9 to \u20ac15, and a beer \u20ac2.50 to \u20ac4.\r\n\r\nA day is \u20ac30 to \u20ac60.\r\n\r\nThe wine is the striking part \u2014 a glass in a valley cellar is often under \u20ac1, and a bottle to take away costs a few euros.\r\n\r\nTake cash to the valley. Many cellars are small family operations that do not take cards, and there are no machines down there.\r\n\r\nThe castle at about \u20ac8 to \u20ac12 is the main entry, and everything else in town is free or close to it.","hw_hub_city_money_points":"Bed | \u20ac12\u201328\r\nA day, all in | \u20ac30\u201360\r\nCellar wine | Often under \u20ac1 a glass\r\nCash for the valley | No card machines, no cash machines","hw_hub_city_money_tag":"budget","hw_hub_city_money_more":"All budget guides for Eger","hw_hub_city_safety_title":"Staying safe in Eger","hw_hub_city_safety_body":"Eger is a very safe small town and crime against visitors is minimal.\r\n\r\nThe wine is the actual risk. Cellar measures are generous, the wine is stronger than it tastes, prices are low enough to remove the usual brake, and hosts pour freely for people showing interest. Eat before you go down and pace yourself deliberately \u2014 the valley has caught out a great many visitors who intended to try three cellars.\r\n\r\nThe walk back to town is twenty minutes, partly unlit and along a road with traffic. Take a taxi after dark, which costs very little.\r\n\r\nThe minaret staircase is extremely narrow, with two-way traffic on a tight spiral and no room to pass comfortably. If you are claustrophobic, do not start.\r\n\r\nThe castle casemates are uneven, low in places and slippery. Emergency number is 112.","hw_hub_city_safety_points":"Cellar measures are generous | And the prices remove the usual brake\r\nTaxi back after dark | The valley road is unlit and has traffic\r\nThe minaret | A very tight spiral with two-way traffic\r\nCastle casemates | Low, uneven and slippery","hw_hub_city_safety_tag":"safety","hw_hub_city_safety_more":"All safety guides for Eger","hw_hub_city_trips_title":"Day trips from Eger","hw_hub_city_trips_intro":"Hills, caves and another wine region north.","hw_hub_city_trips":"Tokaj | 2 hours | Train, about \u20ac8 | The sweet wine region, UNESCO-listed, with cellars cut deep into the hillsides. |  | 1303955\nBudapest | 2 hours | Train, about \u20ac9 | The capital, easy in either direction. |  | 1303956","hw_hub_city_trips_tag":"day-trips","hw_hub_city_trips_more":"All day trips from Eger","hw_hub_city_season_title":"When to go","hw_hub_city_season_intro":"May to October. September and October are harvest and the best of it.","hw_hub_city_season_note":"Average highs. Cellar opening hours in the valley are irregular outside summer \u2014 afternoons and weekends are reliable, weekday mornings in winter are not.","hw_hub_city_season_rows":"January | 2 | 2 | Cold and quiet. Some cellars closed\r\nFebruary | 5 | 2 | Cold. Very few visitors\r\nMarch | 11 | 3 | Improving. Town pleasant, valley reopening\r\nApril | 17 | 4 | Good. Warm days and quiet cellars\r\nMay | 22 | 5 | Excellent. Everything open and the valley busy\r\nJune | 25 | 5 | Very good. Long evenings in the cellars\r\nJuly | 27 | 4 | Hot. Organ recitals in the basilica\r\nAugust | 27 | 4 | Hot and busiest with Hungarian holidaymakers\r\nSeptember | 22 | 5 | The best month. Harvest and warm evenings\r\nOctober | 16 | 5 | Excellent. Harvest continuing and autumn in the B\u00fckk\r\nNovember | 8 | 2 | Cold and quiet. Cellar hours shorten\r\nDecember | 3 | 3 | Cold. A small Christmas market on Dob\u00f3 Square","hw_hub_city_events_title":"What is on while you are there","hw_hub_city_events_intro":"A harvest in September and a siege re-enacted at the castle.","hw_hub_city_events_source":"api","hw_hub_city_events_count":"8","hw_hub_city_events_cache":"24","hw_hub_city_events_cta_label":"All events in Eger","hw_hub_city_events_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/events\/europe\/hungary\/eger\/","hw_hub_city_events":"Harvest | September to October | Sz\u00e9passzony-v\u00f6lgy and the vineyards | The vintage, when the cellars are working and the valley is at its busiest and best. |  | \nEger Castle events | Summer | The castle | Historical displays and re-enactments around the 1552 siege, through the warmer months. |  | \nBasilica organ recitals | May to October | Eger Basilica | Short recitals on the largest organ in Hungary, free or very cheap. |  | \nBikav\u00e9r Festival | Summer | Dob\u00f3 Square | A wine festival on the main square focused on the region's red blend. |  | \nChristmas market | December | Dob\u00f3 Square | A small market on the baroque square, with mulled Bikav\u00e9r. |  | ","hw_hub_city_budget_title":"What your trip will cost","hw_hub_city_budget_intro":"Pick how you travel. Per person per night, in euros \u2014 you will pay in forint.","hw_hub_city_budget_note":"Shown in euros for comparison; you pay in forint and should carry cash for the wine cellars.","hw_hub_city_budget_rows":"Shoestring | 12 | 9 | 1 | 3\r\nMiddle of the road | 22 | 18 | 2 | 12\r\nComfortable | 40 | 32 | 4 | 25","hw_hub_city_budget_currency":"\u20ac","hw_hub_city_hostels_title":"Where to stay in Eger","hw_hub_city_hostels_intro":"A small scene of guesthouses and hostels around the old town. Live from Hostelworld.","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_label":"All hostels in Eger","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/hungary\/eger\/","hw_hub_city_hostels_source":"api","hw_hub_city_hostels_count":"12","hw_hub_city_hostels_cache":"12","hw_hub_city_picks":"Best for solo travellers |  |  | \nBest for a party |  |  | \nQuietest |  |  | ","hw_hub_city_hostels":"","hw_hub_city_faq_title":"Eger travel questions","hw_hub_city_faq_note":"The ones we get asked most.","hw_hub_city_faqs":"What is the Valley of the Beautiful Women? | Sz\u00e9passzony-v\u00f6lgy, a horseshoe-shaped valley about twenty minutes' walk west of the centre, with around thirty wine cellars cut into the tufa rock. Most are small and family-run, a glass is often under \u20ac1, and the evening consists of moving from door to door. Take cash \u2014 many do not accept cards.\r\nWhat is Bull's Blood? | Egri Bikav\u00e9r, the region's red blend. The name comes from a legend about the 1552 siege: defenders drank wine so heavily stained that besieging Ottoman soldiers believed it was mixed with bull's blood. Egri Csillag, the white blend, is arguably the better wine and gets less attention.\r\nHow much time do I need? | One night, or two if you intend to drink properly. The town centre and the castle take half a day, and the wine valley takes an evening.\r\nIs the minaret climbable? | Yes, for a small fee, but the staircase is a very tight spiral about forty metres high with two-way traffic and almost no room to pass. People turn back partway up regularly. If you are claustrophobic, do not start.\r\nHow do I get back from the valley at night? | Take a taxi. It is twenty minutes on foot, partly unlit and along a road with traffic, and taxis in Eger cost very little. This matters more than it sounds after an evening in the cellars.\r\nWhen should I visit? | September or October, during the harvest, when the cellars are working and the evenings are still warm. May and June are the other good window. Cellar hours are irregular in winter.\r\nIs it easy from Budapest? | Two hours by train for around \u20ac9, several services a day. It works as a day trip, but the wine valley is an evening activity, so an overnight is much better.","hw_hub_city_cta_title":"Say yes to hostels, meet the world","hw_hub_city_cta_body":"Compare Eger hostels and guesthouses \u2014 live prices, real reviews and free cancellation on most bookings. 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