Villány Templomhegy (Church-hill) Nature Conservation Area - Duna-Dráva NP (sitios de interés)
Descripción del sitio
| Territory of the protected area: 3,2 hectares out of which 2,2 hectares are highly protected. Location: The protected area is situated in the fields of Villány. Visitors: The protected area can be freely toured on the educational paths. Management: Directorate of Duna–Dráva National Park The Villány Templomhegy is located at the easternmost part of the Villány-mountains. The good quality limestone almost 200 million years old was exploited in an surface quarry on the top of the church hill. Very precious finds were excavated during exploitation of the quarry (the quarry is abandoned and protected by the present). One of the most well known finds are the well visible prints of amonites (once lived in the sea which used to cover the area here) – distant realatives of the nautili – in the limestone walls of the quarry.  The caves of the churh-hill are just as precious as the fossils. Unparallelled finds of fossilized remains of bones of small vertebrata – mostly rodents – were found in the caves. There is a magnificent view of the neighbourhood from the top of the mountain. http://www.foek.hu/zsibongo/termve/tt/angtt/villany.htm |