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Geographically the research covers the vineyards in the southern part of Zala County, in south-western Hungary. In the article I seek an answer to the question of how and to what extent the vineyard plots that were earlier used in part for commodity production (for the grower's own use and to a lesser extent for the market), and in part as hobby gardens are being transformed into an area offering leisure-time activities for others (vineyard tourism). On the basis of data collected during fieldwork I examine the festivals and events designed to preserve and create vineyard traditions (vineyard festival, protective saints and sacral relics, grape harvest festival, chestnut festival) and tourism opportunities according to their economic, social and cultural functions. In the southern Zala region examined a wide variety and complex forms of these events arose and they play a not insignificant part in shaping and strengthening local and micro community identity. Creative individual or micro community initiatives play a very big part in the present processes of the preservation and invention of tradition, but the events can only be kept alive and become tradition if they are accepted by the community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the Royal Provostry (priory church) in Székesfehérvár, Hungary, which was destroyed during the Ottoman occupation of Hungary in the 13th century, and whose relics have been the subject of archaeological excavations since the 19th century. A short reconstructed history of the building based on research is presented, including the western building, dated to the 11th century, and the southern cloister, dated to the 12th century. Additional dates presented by the researcher include the 14th century construction of the church's great wall blocks, and the large foundations in the southern part are placed in the 15th century under king Charles Robert.

After the Turkish domination three monastic orders, the Jesuits, the Franciscans, and the order of the Hermits of St. Paul took major part at reconstruction, re-Catholicizing, and education in Hungary. Since the Paulines, as the sole order founded in Hungary, used the liturgy of Esztergom from the beginning of the 14th century, researches on 17-18th century music of the order focused mainly on mediaeval relics: survival of plain chant and the so-called Hungarian notation. Information about the musical life and the music of Paulines can be combined from two types of sources: from inventories, diaries, historia domus of dissolved monasteries, and from musical manuscripts (choir-books, organ-books) written and used by Pauline monks. The song repertoire (hymns) of the Baroque and early Classic era had been regarded of lesser value by Hungarian musicologists although Hungarian translations of some of the songs and their concordance with Franciscan manuscripts suggest a widespread use. Hungarian folksongs and melodies rooted in the folk tradition were not foreign to the Pauline practice: P. Gábor Koncz closed his songbook with Christmas carols which were in wide use in Hungarian folk tradition. Some polyphonic pieces also belong to the accurate and authentic picture of Pauline tradition of the 17-18th century. This polyphony requires no professional singers, it is a very simple, folk-like homophony in pastoral manner appropriate to education at schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]