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Chernel-kert Arborétum

The Chernel-kert Arborétum began as a family orchard, part of the Chernel-család’s roughly 1.5-hectare fruit garden, and later reshaped into a bird-protection showpiece. Chernel István, an ornithologist, started building it into an “emlékkert” and madárvédelmi mintateleppé in 1898, planting what he called memory trees on national and family occasions—events such as the return of Kossuth Lajos and II. Rákóczi Ferenc’s ashes. In front of the garden, a memorial to Chernel István was erected in 1931; the portrait was carved by Sándor Mayer, a sculptor from Szombathely. …

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