Geography of Balassagyarmat(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Balassagyarmat lays at the border of the Hungarian and Slovakian Republic, 80 kms from Budapest, 40 kms from the Danube bend.
In the respect of traffic Balassagyarmat is a junction in the county.
Besides there are environmental reasons of that the town administration is planning for a long time that a new road sould be built that bypasses the town's center.
Balassagyarmat is the cultural center of the Ipoly territory since the Medieval Era.
At the same time Balassagyarmat was already proud of a hospital with importance of the whole country, a valuable museum, a cinema, library, and several cultural and other associations.
The oldest civilian association is the singing club of Balassagyarmat, it functions for one and a half centuries, and it won several country-wide competitions.
Grateful posterity raised a monument to the girls and women of Balassagyarmat, in the garden of the Paloc Museum.
The once big castle changed its owner several times, lived through many victories and defeats, and was finally razed to a heap of ruins in 1663 by the Turks.
The classical Old County Hall, built between 1832-1835, is one of the most beautiful buildings in the town and reminds us that Balassagyarmat was a countytown from 1790 to 1950.
A town has a thousand faces, it is different at summertime and it is different at wintertime, different in sunshine, and in a foggy day.
Through this exhibition artists from Balassagyarmat talk about their feelings of the town.
The exhibition is not large enough to show the works of all the artists from Balassagyarmat, so we intended to present works of young artists who never before exhibited in the Palóc Museum beside those of Zoltán Farkas and András Farkas.
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