Nobody Visits This Hungarian City…Find Out Why You Should! (magyar subtitles 🇭🇺)

Wow, what a fantatic day it was in Tatabanya. I had been here previously to visit the turul and the cave, but never had I experienced the nitty gritty city before. In just 3 hours we fit in a full adventure in Tatabanya. I’m surprised that nobody comes here, because even on a dismal, cold and dreary january afternoon I had a lot of fun meandering around the city, chating with locals, trying food and making my way around the four parts of town. Watch this video if you like hungarian history, local culture, and an adventure with an american guy who loves doing these little videos. Enjoy and thanks as always. Please subscribe and share with your friends. And I love when you guys leave comments. Thanks 🙂
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What’s up, what’s up, how are you? Oh, ameria! very good! I’m american. Michael Jordan. How long have you been learning Hungarian? Five years. I speak terribly, but I try. No I think you speak very well. Good, do you speak english?A little? For example, igen, what does that mean? Yes. Heyyyyy

What does “nem” mean? No. Heyyyyy!!! What does “szia” mean? What’s your name? Me? I’m Willie. On youtube it is @withwillie. Ladies and gents, how we doing? Welcome to tata …….. bánya…… Oh my god. wow. Tatabánya. It’s a market? Yes.

But not today? Today just a little. Would you like to take a look. Yeah sure. Why? What would you like? Or just interested? Yes, just interested. I’m american. Ok come on…. Are you the market master? No. The market master comes tomorrow. Interesting little market. Good. Wow.

What’s your name? Ica. I am Willie. Molli? No. Willie, like Vilmos. I’m American. But my wife is Hungarian. Were you born in Tatabánya? No Slovakia. Oh the Felvidek. Yes.

We can see the turul. the turul a mythical bird of pray  with a sword in its Talons the sword that was   dropped onto the Hungarian homelands to lead the  ancient magyar many centuries ago now we visited  

That turul on a previous trip to tatabánya what was  it now 2021 3 years ago Happy New Year’s by the   way. so we’re going to leave the turul  for now and the szelim barlang the szelim cave  

Next to it and we are going to head into tatabánya  proper a place where I have never wandered and   I am titillated titillated with excitement to see  what this mining town for that is what bánya means in  

Hungarian it means mine to see what this mining  town has in store for us well well well if it   isn’t Chief arpad the man who led the ancient  hungarians into the Carpathian Basin he’s got   a beautiful hat and a slightly bent Hilt of his  sword surrounded by the seven chieftans huba tas  

Ond Kond elöd and I never know is it arpad and the Seven  Chieftain or arpad is part of the seven Chiefs   because it says on the little Rim there almoss  which I thought was arpad’s father born to emese  

Conceived in a dream all sorts of mystical stuff  somehow the turul involved yada yada yada o farsang! busojaras. all right and now we head onwards  into tatabánya into the city into the mine. Can I help you? No, I’m fine. Good, good. You are strong.

Two months (not sure what he said). two months, woo. okay now of course tatabánya well I shouldn’t  really say of course but it’s not an active   mine anymore it hasn’t been since the 80s when  the coal was pretty much exhausted and it  

Wasn’t always an active mine either they only  dug up the first lump in 1896 the year of the   Hungarian millennium there we can see the turul  it’s really the symbol of tatabánya my goodness look   at these great hunks of Ice. Hotel arpad. turul. szelim barlang. it was between the discovery  

Of coal in the 1890s and the closure of the  coal mines in 1980s that tatabánya not only came   into existence but had a rapid rapid expansion  from its prior life as four independent mostly   agricultural Villages into the sort of symbol  of communist growth and Industry that it did  

Become and tatabánya came to symbolize the  Communist industrialization projects to   such an extent that it was named the county  seat the capital of komarom-esztergom county. oh look what   we’ve got here a traditional butcher shop what  is on offer? Goose leg. Beef. Rooster. okay take a little look wow.

Gorgeous. Oh, unicum? Salami. Oh, Unicum salami. Unicum flavor? Or just the design? Here you can see they take the salami and turn it into an Unicum shape. The lads love it. wow, very good. I adore Unicum. Thank you very much. You are very welcome

Oh its a turul! You see Esztergom, it really represented the old regime in Hungary. it was the seat of the Catholic Church thousands  of years of History Petty nobility. yada yada yada.  tatabánya on the other hand only became a real city  after the four parts alsogalla felsogalla, tatabánya and the  

Ancient banhida, which had been a town since 1288, of course of course but they came together after   World War II and soon thereafter early 1950s  tatabánya becomes the county seat   of komarom-esztergom County and it was in the century between  the 1890s and the 1980s that tatabánya had thousands  

And thousands and thousands of workers move to  the area which is why you see so many of these   lakotelep these housing Estates filled with the  pre-fabricated panel houses the panel hazak wow   look at this this is most certainly not a lakotelep we got two santa clauses and uh a school across  

The way there all right entering into bahnhida,  which I mentioned before is the oldest part of   tatabánya, banhida great googly moogly look at the Civil  industrial engineering Let Me Tell You Folks it is   great to make the acquaintance of another year  2024 it’s going to be a wild one very historical  

Year 2024 shall be I promise you that if nothing  else but you know what forget about history forget   about the news forget about the current events  let’s focus on the present for I love nothing more   than traversing these common areas you know the  the tourist sites they’re great but it’s really  

The everyday life that gets me more excited than  everything else and anything else for that matter hm, hm, hm, hm. on the path on the road. Here is the sun, here is the sun. It’s not all housing estates. we got a nice looking church over there some colorful buildings

Tatabánya dog. I think he likes me. eclectic. who’s that? of course Mak Bela.  no idea who he is oh beautiful and we’ve got the coal. that’s what the workers would say   before heading down into the the very  dangerous Mine shafts and actually just in tatabánya  

Alone in the 100 years of mining history over 500  workers died in mining disasters very tragic very   tragic yeah we said that banhida is the oldest part  of town and we can see a lot of tradition a lot  

Of tradition commemorated here the Slovak house.  very nice very cultural is it open not quite   the Slovak has nowadays there’s only about 300  Slovak who live in tatabánya but it used to have many   slovaks for it was in the 18th century after the  expulsion of the Turks that the Eszterhazy family

Who ruled the domains around here particularly  in tata that’s where the Tata in tatabánya comes   from it’s the more Royal the more fancy Tata just  up the road that way anyways the Estherhazys they   said it’s post-turk times post-reformation times  Counter Reformation times we’re going to bring  

A lot of Catholics back into this area slovaks  Germans and there you have it oh nice Pushkin   oh great guy you know it’s kind of sad nowadays  a lot of Russian history is being brushed over  

Just cause of Putin but look Alexander puskin he’s  a legend any way you call it and that is the and look at this for a bus   stop you can see the turul on  his hat there tabor farago

Super cool don’t really get a good view  behind this pole but uh all right well we see   here with these two swords sticking out  of the ground some sort of World War II   commemoration this lady’s filming from her  window and I am filming from the streets this is  

A nice looking Memorial 1848 1849 the Hungarian  Revolution wow this is like uh the strip of the   memorials here in banhida memorial memorial memorial  that’s got to be first world war   just judging by the uniform yep 1914 to 1918 and  it was after 1914 and 1918 that Hungary and tatabánya  

Which wasn’t tatabánya yet experienced their first  wave of Communism. Bela Kun. 1919 and it was in the   counter Revolution afterwards that one of the  greatest tragedies in tatabánya history did take   place here is the Protestant Church  the reformatus templom we know it’s reform  

Because instead of a cross they got a star on  the roof don’t know whether these are Lutheran or   Calvinists but there’s not much oh boy yikes time  for a new tire buddy hate to say it but it’s time  

For a new tire uh but anyway back to 199 September  6th the Soviet Republic. Bela Kun. The Soviet Republic had   been washed out and the counterrevolution took  hold they started increasing working hours   arresting union leaders and the miners didn’t like  this too much you know mining is a very inherently  

Unionist socialist industry and so they rebelled  guess what they were shot by the gendarmes. they sent   in the gendarmes. many miners dead September 6th 1950s  the Soviets the Soviet regime they made this the   national day of the miners we are now heading away  from banhida into tatabánya one of the other three four  

Excuse me old villages there was banhida, tatabánya, alsogalla, felsogalla, and what do we have here oh Lead Me   little machka tatab machka uhoh he got a little  nervous sorry buddy you’re so toy where did he go fast as Lightning I wanted to  see housing estates today and instead  

Look like we’re in the middle of the  countryside we got sheep we got geese  we got ducks, jeez this is not  where I parked my car hashtag rare and look at this it’s like a full-blown  Vineyard wow cement columned Vineyard love to  

See it love to see it would love to drink some  of their wine. please somebody come greet me   and offer me a glass oh well perhaps perhaps we  had lingered longer but the sun which is popping  

Its head through the clouds is only going to last  so long I really love this thank you thank you all   so much for motivating me to make these  videos it is my dream it is my dream come true  

To walk through the streets of tatabánya rambling  to myself with a stick in my hand you know   everyone’s got a put it on a show for us folks  there’s the train steam coming from the pipes little bit ahead of ourselves I don’t want  this dream to turn into a nightmare could it be  

A sauna all right stay focused stay focused stay  Adhd Yep this is what we were looking for a way   across the train tracks and I have a feeling  on that side of the tracks

That’s what we are talking about baby. numbers on the side of the wall. this is the sarberek housing estate. let’s go have a little poke around a little mosy a little gander. you know what they call a gaggle of geese?  they call it a gander. here are the classic  

1 2 3 4 five story panel hazak in the lakotelep.  and they call them panel hazak because they’re   basically panels they’re prefabricated or they  were pre-fabricated when they used to make them   during the Communist times and they build them  in a row and then just stack them on top of each  

Other I’m not sure how exactly it works but I’m  always fascinated by this type of cement millions   of little rocks quite peculiar not so pretty but  functional it will probably outlive everything   else and I haven’t eaten all day actually just an  apple and a banana and a cup of coffee Viva Las

Vegas we got the Vegas Burger it’s actually  the Manhattan Burger not the Vegas Burger some   cheese some tomato bacon smoked cheese  let’s see how it does well here goes nothing not the best not the worst let’s call it  a 7.1 oh it’s the biggest river in tatabánya look at  

That wow Sunset the gala the gala brook. okay gala  gala gala that is the name of alsogalla. and felsogalla. that’s going to be the last stop on our tour  today as we Scurry out of tatabánya in the golden

Hour we might not actually have time for felsogalla, or upper Galla but we’ll certainly have   time for Alsogalla and actually you know how  we said before that the towns the four towns   banhida, tatabánya, alsogalla, felsogalla, they United  at the end of World War II to become tatabánya  

It was alsogalla that held out the longest they  were trying to unite since the 1920s and alsogalla  was like no we’re richer we’re better we’re  growing quicker we don’t want to get dragged   down by the others so let’s go see why alsogalla is so compared to the rest and if  

It still is today I mean this might have just  been in the 40s wow all right we’re inside a this is suspicious okay I’m not sure quite what  this is used for. but wow what a view what a

Okay it’s a whole world back here we got the   bakery, the icecream store, probably more of a  summer thing, grocery store, pharmacy fruit and veg. everything you need very compact all  together Community style could have a little bit  

Of a second meal in the that that burger sitting  on me like Santa Claus at the mall ah kodaly zoltan very famous musician and here is his Elementary  School one of the most famous hungarian musicians. Let the music  be for everyone

So when you live in a lakotelep. up there’s obviously no garages and if you have  a car you store it in somewhere like this it’s   almost the equivalent of a old horse stable and  this neighborhood on the way to alsogalla and the  

Old town is filled with quite big houses  actually this is like where the Richie Richies   live in tatabánya we’re going to head down here to the  galla brook. aha some pipelines now even though the   mines closed in 1987 industry still plays a big  role in the tatabánya economy they converted  

To more manufacturing rather than Mining and  to this day there’s still a lot of factories   around this neck of the woods just look at  the mighty Galla it’s pretty clear actually   that water looks damn near drinkable although  I do not recommend that I do not recommend that  

One bit well we shall wave goodbye to the main  chunk of tatabánya out there and head in through   this little Nook over there for the Oldtown  and Alsogalla the sunlight is draining away   rapidly the problem with these winter episodes  they’re over before you knew it I mean we only  

Got here 2 and 1/ half hours ago fit a lot in  to that time don’t get me wrong fit a lot into   that time but it goes too quick lovely it’s a  kindergarten a Hungarian German   Elementary School we can see the May pole May 1st  classic tradition traditional clothes and right  

Through the buildings there a church poking up  proudly through the clouds love the looks of this place Oh american. Very good. I’m American. Michael Jordan. And how are you guys? Everything ok? How long have you been learning Hungarian? Five years. I speak terribly, but I try.

No, you actually speak quite well. Good. Do you speak English? Just a little maybe? What does it mean igen. Yes. What does it mean, nem. No. What does Szia mean? What’s your name? Me? I am Willie. What time is it?

I think it’s four. What’s your name? Horvath Ricardo. Excuse me? Horvath Ricardo. Horvath Ricardo. Horvath Ricky. And? Horvath Marcelo. And? Cristiano Ronaldo. Hahaha. Horvath Mate. Oh so you are brothers? I am also one of three brothers. You play football. Yes, I do actually. Liverpool is my favorite.

Szoboszlai. One more time!! okay cool kids they were headed to felsogalla  we’re not going to have time for that today. tatabánya. We’ll be back. wow what a day it’s been here in tatabánya.  That’s All She Wrote folks we’re going  

To get the train back from the alsogalla train station and scadaddle back home to Leányfalu.