How to visit Holloko
Walk through the main street of Holloko and you would be forgiven for thinking you were in a different century, in a rural community long before the agricultural revolution.
Hungary’s World Heritage village, Holloko, has been protected to preserve this culture and it’s a fascinating insight into traditional life on the land.
Holloko may not be large but there is plenty to explore on the village and it makes a great day trip from Budapest.
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Travelling through the countryside, travelling through time. On a day trip from Budapest to the small village of Holloko in Hungary, I’m transported to a period before modern machinery.
The village, home to farmers for generations, has been preserved just how it was before the agricultural revolution of the 20th century – small wooden houses, fields around the settlement, barns on the edge of town.
To visit Holloko, to walk down its main street and pop into the buildings that are now open as shops, restaurants, or museums, is to visit the rural Hungary of at least a century ago.
It’s quaint in appearance but underdeveloped by the standards of many other parts of Europe at the time – partly because the continent’s power brokers didn’t want to invest in infrastructure in the region.
I’ve got more information further down about how to visit Holloko from Budapest independently. If you would prefer to take the hassle out of the day, this Holloko day trip will arrange everything for you.
When you explore Holloko, you’ll see a village of yesteryear. But, remember, it’s still inhabited, and not some kind of historical theme park, so of course it now has modern conveniences like electricity.
The history of Holloko
The first houses of this village of Holloko appeared about 350 years ago, towards the end of the 17th century. Before that, there had been a settlement in the same area, to support the hilltop castle founded in the Middle Ages – more on that shortly.
That previous village was abandoned and destroyed. (Obviously the castle that had been built to protect the village didn’t work every time!) And the new one was settled by farmers from the Paloc ethnic group.
Holloko began as just a single street and, following the tradition at the time, houses were built down the street on either side, the entrances facing each other and the land behind the houses belonging to each resident.
As the next generations of Paloc grew up and needed…
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