Heves County takes up the middle pan of the Northern mountain of medium height and the edge of the Great Plain to the River Tisza. Its territory is 3,630 square km and its population is 330.000.
The county town is Eger with a population of 63.000. There are seven towns is the county.
Gyöngyös (37.000), Hatvan (24.000), Heves (11.000) have more than l0.000 inhabitants.
There are 111 villages in the county.
The Mátra and the western pan of the Bükk rise from the Great Plain. The foot of the Mátra and the foot of the Bükk belong to Heves County.
It has some streams and the most important ones are: the Eger, Tarna and the Zagyva. The River Tisza collects the water of these streams. Heves County has some spring waters and there are waters containing sulphur or carbonated ones (Parád, Bükkszék, Eger), and medical baths were set up on them during the Turkish occupation. Nowadays these are the foundation of the health tourism. Its climate - if we leave the parts of the Great Plain out of consideration - is cooler and wetter a bit than the national mean and moderated.
The geology and the natural vegetation of the region is varied very much. The Mátra consists of andesite and the foot of it is a hilly one. Down below it is covered by tomentose oakforests, on the downhill by hornbeam oakforests and on the mountaintops beechwoods developed.
We can find traces of primitive human cultures on the countryside. Presence of the primitive man proved in the Baradla cave, Szilvásvárad.
The valley of the stream of Tarna and Eger divides the Mátra and the Bükk. Last decades mining, industry and agriculture were in the same proportion in the economy of the county. The small and the middle sized companies began to gain ground related to the reform of property. Nowadays there are 1,155 economic organisations with legal entity in the county, 36 of them are state-owned firms, 30 join-stock companies and 9o8 limited liability companies. 80 % of them give employment less than 50 persons, the others employ less than 21 persons.
The historic wine-growing area of Eger was formed on the sunny southern slopes of Mátra and the Bükk, on the good ground of the detrius of vulcanic rocks. But there are other very famous wine-producing regions, e. g. Gyöngyös-Visonta and Debrõ.
The local conditions, the plenty of medicinal and mineral waters give a good foundation to certain sectors of tourism. The most important holiday resorts and convalescent homes of this mountainous area are in the Mátra is Mátraháza, Mátrafüred, Galyatatõ, Kékes: in the Bükk there is Bánkút and Szilvásvárad. There are health-resorts in Parád and Eger.
Eger has a great number of tourists attractions. You can find favourable conditions in the summer or in the winter if you like Water-, mountain- and hunter-tourism.

Sós Tamás

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