Galya-tető, Mountain summit in Heves County, Hungary
Galya-tető is a 964-metre summit in the Mátra range, the second-highest peak in Hungary after Kékes. It rises above the resort settlement of Galyatető, part of Mátraszentimre, and its slopes are crossed by trails linking the summit to the surrounding Mátra forests.
The Mátra Association opened a hostel here in 1894. An andesite watchtower was built on Péter-hegyese in 1934, and a luxury hotel replaced the ruined hostel below it in 1939. The Church of Patrona Hungariae was built on Galya-tető in 1941, and the area was annexed to Mátraszentimre in 1948.
The name Galya-tető probably comes from the Slovak word "gol'a", meaning a treeless, grassy mountain; the Slovak name is Matranská hoľa. The Church of Patrona Hungariae was built on the summit in 1941. The resort place belongs to the village of Mátraszentimre and had 43 residents at the 2022 census.
Galya-tető lies 5.0 km from the centre of Mátraszentimre and is served by buses from Budapest; the resort place has its own postal code, 3234. The ski slopes built in the 1960s are no longer usable. The renewed tower holds three bivouac shelters for hikers, and the observatory on Piszkés-tető west of the peak has been open to visitors since 2013.
The stamping station of the National Blue Trail is not on the summit itself but in the new hostel below the Galya-kilátó, the lookout on the Péter-hegyese side peak. That tower, first built in 1934, was raised from 17 to 30 metres in 2014-2015 with a double spiral staircase and three bivouac shelters at the top.
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