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Transcarpathia - Muckachevo /Ukrain/

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I with my father was invited to the conference about "Centuary of Discovery of the Electron" by Uzhgorod institute of electron physics during August of 1997. It was my first visit to Trans Carpathia region which is very interesting land. First, it's a mix of landscapes: mountains, forests and begining of Hungarian stepple. Second, it's a mix of nation and languages: Russians, Ukranians and old Slavic tribes from moutains (Rusins for example) mixed with Slovaks, Hungarians, Gipsy (nomadic and settled) and on the south there are ever a couple of Romanians villiages. The place is reach with mineral water, wineyards and fruits.
We've been living in local capital - city Uzhgorod which has many parks, some churches, old castle and big open air museum of peasant life: houses, farms and etc typical for different places and nations from TransCarpathia collected in one site. There were a couple of interesting and long excursions by bus organised by our hosts.

Pic 1: We have visited Mukachevo castle in one day trip. Here I made a photo of Mukachevo castle hill from the highway there our bus stopped for a while. The hill is very high (around 80 meters) and stands quite far away from the mountain ridge (4-5 km). The geologist say that this hill was formed through volcanic process. Local people in medival times belived in other story which insists that hill was created by local peasant which were forced by feodal to create this hill (by bringing ground up) during several years. It was really a torture work which gave a name Mukachevo for castle and town from Slavic world "muka" equal to English "torture". But it's only legend since the body of the hill is solid rock.

Pic 2: One can see from this photo how big and complicated is the fortification on the hill. The road climbs on the top of the hill by halfspiral and virtually each meter of it exposed to the fire from the walls of the castle. This castle viewed ...

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