Dorog - Piliscsaba (OKT 30th day tour)

Before setting off on the winding route at the foot of the Pilis: next to the Dorog railway station, on the wall of the staircase of the railway tunnel, you will find the stamp of the Blue Tour of Dorog.

The K signs start under the tracks towards Piliscsaba. Although Dorog - due to its favourable transport geography and the presence of the Árpád-era capitalEsztergom, a city of the Árpád region, it is an ancient settlement, but its name dates back to the 19th century. The town's origins are due to its ancient settlement, but its name is linked to the coal mining that started in the 19th century, which played an important role in the town's rapid development and the development of its present-day image. Its small town core retains some historic atmosphere, but it is also characterised by a checkerboard street grid and housing estates, as all planned settlements are.

These housing estates are also largely associated with the mining industry and the people who played an important role in Dorog's development. Leaving the tunnel, the K signs turn right along the railway road, with a park on the left and aand a row of sycamore trees on the left, with the Vilmos Zsigmondy housing estate virtually 'hidden'. The eponymous mining engineer played an important role in the town's coal mining industrywhile the neighbouring settlement's namesake, Sándor Schmidt "father of Dorog', as he was the director of the DorogHe was the director of Dorog, where he built housing estates and institutions, and quadrupled the population during his reign.

We pass by the pitch of Dorog FC, the Jenő Buzánszky Stadium. Football in Dorog has been linked to mining - from the club's foundation to theFrom the club's foundation until its privatisation in 1994, the team was continuously supported by the coal mine. Like the mining industry, the town's football has also seen better times, with the Golden Team, the namesake of the sports complex, and a football team that has been the main sponsor of the town's football team for many years.Gyula Grosics, one of the founding members of the Dorogi Bányász team, was also a native of the town.

We pass by the Transylvanian-style Reformed church, built between the two world wars, and soon we reach the edge of the town. On our right you can see the embankment of the former sand railway, which was built from the sand mines between Dorog and Esztergom, the site of the area's famous "sand quarries".Palatinus Lake, a kind of beach in the area, transported the rock used to seal the exhausted shafts to the shafts in Dorog, Csolnok and Sárisáp.

The K signs lead to the left, crossing the "Rainbow Bridge" on the Kenyérmezői-patakak, a memorial to deceased pets: Leashes and animal toys are attached to the railing. On the stairway of the shooting range, an OSB board with a huge but worn signpost points to the right, and we leave Dorog for good.

Our path winds through young acacia woods, then we cross the Dorog bypass, number 117, and find ourselves on the main street of Kesztölc. The Blue Trail bypasses the centre of the village, cutting a rather featureless and boring route through the western part of the village.

Like Dorog, mining has played an important role in the life of Kesztölc. Although the Dorog mining company only started extracting brown coal from Lencse Hill in 1971, the village's population was still very much dependent on the coal.The quarry, which covers an area of almost 2000 m² and 'bites' into the western side of the two-branched mountain, has provided work for the village's inhabitants for centuries. The village's coat of arms features a hammer and hammer wedge, which refers to mining, and the name of the village, KétágúThe coat of arms of Kesztölc also features two vineyards, as Kesztölc is traditionally a wine-growing village: There are cellars and several cellars in the village, which is part of the Neszmély wine region.

Perhaps the most absurd story of the 1956 revolution is connected with Kesztölc, and it is worth reading about it in more detail. Not content with the capture of the local party secretary, the village's restive population even called for the independent Keszthölc Republic.They even managed to buy a stalled T-34 tank from the Esztergom military for some brandy.

The K signs cut through the former vineyards of the Cseresznyés hill, the highest point of which is thethe highest point of the mountain, the Two-Branched Mountain looms before us, its white limestone rocks peeking through the foliage. We continue along the tower towards a small valley with the Palatine Order and the Kesztölc Wine Club.past the herb gardens and then start climbing again, this time on the skirts of the mountain.

At a fork, following the Z sign, you enter the saddle between the two "branches" of the mountain, the Blue Route avoids the cliff: it turns right. Although you are only 330-340 metres above sea level, there are no trees because of the former vineyards and ploughs that climb up the mountain's skirt.From the right, you can enjoy a magnificent panorama of the Dorogi basin and the Gerecse region. On the left you can see the cliffs of the Kétágú hill, opposite the plateau of the Pilis-top. (At a comfortable pace, including a rest, it takes an hour to walk back and forth along the Öreg Cliff detour: from the cliffs above, the panorama of the area and the Gerecse is complete.)

If you look at the map of the Pilis, you can see the two-branch-mountains-Clastrom Cliffs-Pilis Roof-Long-mountain, you will notice that geomorphologically very similar blocks are lined up almost in a line. This is of course no coincidence: the limestone and dolomite of the Pilis have been uplifted and tilted by geological movements. Here, too, a northwest-southeast trending fault runs along which the strata heads have risen - resulting in the steep southwest face of the hillsides.

Entering the forest and then the access road to Klastrompuszta, we soon arrive at theWe soon arrive at the resort of Kesztölch, under the Klastrom and Csévi cliffs. There are stamps on the fence of the Tölgyfa buffet and guesthouse and on the signpost next to the ruins of the Pauline monastery.

Klastrompuszta became a popular holiday resort in the 1960s, initially mainly for workers at the Dorg coal minesThe village was a social project to build a road, a tourist hotel, a TSZ camp and a small pond. It was also at this time that the excavation of the Pauline monastery began, of which nothing was visible at the time - only the name of the building was preserved. About a decade later, the parcel of the site was parcelled out by the council of Kesztholac.The surrounding area, whose holiday homes still dominate the landscape of Klastrompuszta, was parcelled over by the local authorities.

Klastrompuszta - Piliscsaba

The stones of the ruins of the former Pauline monastery are the meeting point of nature and human history. In the 13th century, the Esztergom canon, Elisabeth, resigned his title and his property and retired to a hermitage. Sitting in a cave in Pilis, he had a vision which led him to collect the stones of the ancient city of Esztergom.hermits from the caves in the area, and the community descended from the mountain to the spring waters to build a church. Later he also founded a monastery (hence the name Klastrompuszta), which after papal recognition became the centre of the only Hungarian order, the Palatines, led by Elisabeth. It remained so until the beginning of the 14th century (when the centre was moved to Buda), and was finally destroyed by the Turks in 1526. After that, vegetation and the building population literally obliterated the ruins, and excavations only began in the 1960s.

A short, but very steep and tiring detour allows you to admire the ruins of Klastrom from above: climb up the vertical, truly chimney-like cliff of the Chimney Rock.

Leaving the resort to the south, you almost immediately come to a fork: on the left, take the KΩ sign to the Legény and Leány caves in the rock face on the western side of the Pilis roof. The road is about 900 m long and has a considerable elevation gain, but the former spring, which rose up together with the mountain mass, is still intact.The landscape opens out towards Dorog, with the Great Gete massif clearly visible.A very intricate, multi-branched and therefore very complex system of rifts along theThe rivers were formed by waters from the depths and then by karst waters flowing down from the surface. The complex Ariadne cave system is the 3rd longest in our country, with more than 15 kilometres of passages. In the early 20th century, Lajos Bella and Ottokár Kadić began to explore the surface cavities, and among many other things, they revealed the presence of prehistoric man. But later these caves also sheltered hermits.

An old, impressive tree preserves a saddle point, which, crossing it, we descend through the dunes of Piliscsév towards the settlement. There is a beautiful view of the Csévi cliff, Piliscsév and the Nagy-Kopasz of Piliscsaba behind it. Unfortunately, the Kéktúra avoids the charming Pincefalut, leading straight to the tidy centre of Piliscsév, the Catholic Church. The Slovak-language sign in the culture house and library is a testament to the multilingual past of the settlement, while the Soviet military cemetery is a reminder of the Second World War.The Soviet military cemetery bears witness to the intense fighting in Pilis during World War II. At the latter, we turn off the main road and, after nearly 2 kilometres of inland wandering, we leave Piliscsév.

The last section of the hike is similar to the previous one: a gentle climb to the saddle point, then a gentle descent, but now you pass through a somewhat featureless forest, with patches of pine trees in places, instead of dunes. For centuries, our wide road was the main route for traffic between Piliscsév and Piliscsaba. Leaving both the K● and K+ junctions, we soon reach Klotildliget, which belongs to Piliscsaba.

Piliscsaba, which has belonged to the Habsburg-Lorraine House since the 18th century, was already a favourite resting place for the nobility. It was Archduke Joseph Károly, the son of József Nádor, who was responsible for the opening of the Budapest-Esztergom railway line in 1895.and named the villa district after his wife Kloltild. The Blue Route crosses the western, less picturesque part of the former residential area, but still in a pleasant, orderly environment, we arrive at the railway station of the former "Kéktúra".King Kálmán's Way, which runs parallel to the railway line and is located close to the station, where the postmark is located.