Geodiversity and Geotop Days at the Nograd Geopark

To join to the events of the International Geodiversity Day (October 6) on our Geoptope Saturdays (October 5 and 12) special programs celebrate the rich geodiversity of the transnational Novohrad-Nograd UNESCO Global Geopark. At its main gateway, the Ipolytarnoc Fossils Nature Reserve, managed by the Bükk National Park Directorate, a guided tour leads back to a vanished past.

The event endorses the International Geodiversity Day initiative by a giuded tour to the boundless geoheritage of a geopark without borders. The visitors can dive into the past from the Pannonian lake through a volcanic disaster to the Paratethys shallow sea full of with giant sharks at the Geosite of the Ipolytarnoc Fossils.

October 6 (Geodiversity Day) is the Day of the 13 Martyrs of Arad in Hungary, that is why 1 day earlier, which is the traditional Geotope Day in Hungary, on October 5, at 10:45 AM, at the Ancient Pine Visitor Center a guided tour starts leading through exhibitions, Miocene rock parks, reconstructed statues of extinct animals, sheltered excavations of a geologic type section and one can touch the wall of the animated past. The guides will explicitly mention and promote the rich geodiversity of the geopark with nearby geosites worth to visit after the tours on the geological study trail. There are other sites with special programs within the Geopark to celebrate the memories of our Earth's heritage, read our news about it. The geodiversity of the transnational geopark transforms this ancient world into a borderless landscape. A report of a previous Geotop Day.