Gyöngyös-Farkasmály

Farkasmály is a part of the town of Gyöngyös, the former entertainment district of the town, where today wine lovers can enjoy the wine cellars. The annual Drinking Day Cellar Walk is held here. The history of the Farkasmály cellars goes back centuries. The first cellars were carved out of the andesite tufa (lava and ash) rock of Sárhegy by French prisoners of war in the 1700s. The cellar was originally an enclosed cellar, with small and large press houses in front of each of the twenty-six cellars. In the centre of the cellar row stood the cellar master's house, from where he watched over the cellars. The cellar was an important centre of the wine trade and a place of festivities.