Modrý Kameň (Blue Stone) is a town in Veľký Krtíš District in Slovakia. The population of the town is 1,664 (2021). It is the second smallest town in Slovakia. The town has a total area of 19.64 square kilometres. The Elevation is 250 metres. Modrý Kameň, first mentioned in 1290. The name of the town was first mentioned as Keykkw in 1290. The name of the settlement means “Blue Rock”. Ruins of the castle Modrý Kameň (298 m) stand on a rock pinnacle above the town.
My Workout Analysis: El. Gain (1,188 m), Min Elev (199 m), Max Elev (670 m), Avg Speed (19.7 kmph), Max Speed (59.2 kmph), Distance (105.15 km), Duration (5:20:23).
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Road cycling to Modrý Kameň started in
Tuhár. There was cloudy weather with high humidity (Tuhár). I passed
through Ábelová – Šuľa – Senné – Horná Strehová – Veľký Krtíš – Modrý Kameň. Modrý Kameň (Blue Stone) is a town in
Veľký Krtíš District in Slovakia. The population of the town is 1,664
(2021). It is the second smallest town in Slovakia. The town has a total area of 19.64
square kilometres. The Elevation is 250 metres. Modrý Kameň, first mentioned in 1290.
The name of the town was first mentioned as Keykkw in 1290. The name of the settlement means “Blue
Rock”. Ruins of the castle Modrý Kameň (298 m) stand on a rock pinnacle above the town.
The castle was built in the second half of the 13th century by
the ancestors of the Balassa noble family. They had to recapture the castle from
the sons of Casimir of the Hont-Pázmány clan by a siege in 1290. The Balassa family
built a new Baroque mansion house on the side of the castle hill in the early
18th century; stones of the former castle were used in the mansion building
operations. The last member of the Balassa noble family died in 1899. After the demise of the Balassa family,
the Almásy noble family became the proprietors of Modrý Kameň Castle. In 1910 the settlement had a population
of 1,347, consisting mostly of Slovak inhabitants, though a significant Hungarian minority
lived in Modrý Kameň as well. Modrý Kameň belonged to Nógrád
(Novohrad) county until the end of the World War I. According to the 2001 census, the town
had 1,434 inhabitants; 92.82 % of inhabitants were Slovaks,
2.79 % Roma, 2.02 % Hungarians and 0.35 % Czechs. My Workout Analysis: El. Gain (1,188 m),
Min Elev (199 m), Max Elev (670 m), Avg Speed (19.7 kmph), Max Speed (59.2 kmph), Distance
(105.15 km), Duration (5:20:23). Moving away from Modrý Kameň and
heading to Veľký Krtíš – Vieska – Dolná Strehová – Veľká nad Ipľom – Lučenec – Vidiná –
Podrečany (the end of my cycling). If you enjoyed this video and would like to get more from my channel, subscribe to MICHAL MALACHOVSKÝ.