A comprehensive religious tourism development was realized in Gyöngyös with almost half a billion forints, after the last element of the series of investments lasting several years was handed over - the project manager of the Gyöngyös City Development Nonprofit Kft. informed MTI.
Papp Hajnalka announced that the consortium of the city government and the Roman Catholic archparish of Upper Town previously won about HUF 492 million for this purpose from the funds of the Regional and Settlement Development Operative Program (TOP).
The reconstruction of the tower spires of St. Bartholomew's Church was completed in recent years with European Union support, while a viewing elevator was installed in the south tower of the building, and a cafe and ticket office were created in the parish.
The project manager highlighted: the St. Bertalan church with its treasury and lapidary, which has a significant church collection, is an important tourist destination in the area, and a unique attraction was created with the faithful reconstruction of the original tower helmets destroyed in the fire of 1917 and the viewing elevator.
All of these are connected to the Church of St. John the Baptist in Mátrafüred by a renewed bicycle path within the framework of the project. In the Széchenyi 2020 program, the cycle path between Gyöngyös and Mátrafüred was widened on a five-kilometer section. And in the interior of Gyöngyös, a new trail has been built to take hikers to the mentioned attractions, Papp Hajnalka added.
Source: MTI
