Cellar villages in Hungary

Cellar village (Pincefalu), Hajos

This is the largest continuous cellar district in Europe.

Approximately 2 kilometres from the settlement is the best-known and most visited site in and around Hajós. Consisting of at least 1,200 wine cellars, this 'cellar town' is virtually a village in its own right built on top of the loess soil.



Cellar village (pincefalu), Palkonya

The cellar village was built in the 19th century in a traditional vernacular style.

Regarding its structural, agricultural historical, ethnographic and aesthetic aspects, the cellar row is of outstanding value. It is a national conservation area.



Cellar village (Pincefalu), Solt

In the cellar-village on Warm Hill a listed vineyard estate was established on 54 hectares comprising of 800 cellars which are nearly 300-400 years old.



Cellar village (Pincefalu), Villanykovesd

There is a row of fifty-seven protected wine cellar buildings cleaving to one another and an additional twenty on the edge of the village towards Villány.

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