Pusztavacs is a village in Dabas district,
Pest county,
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
, about 54 km south-east of the capital
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...
. Its population consists of 1530 inhabitants. Pusztavacs was first mentioned in records in 1274. It is notable for featuring the
geographical centre
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of the country. To mark that centre, an 11 m high octagonal pyramid was built in 1978 by the plans of the architect József Kerény
The tower was burnt down in 2001 and later rebuilt in 2004.
Some sights include ruins of a 15th-century church and a memorial to the 13 martyrs of Arad.
Populated places in Pest County
Geographical centres
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