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Kékes, also called Kékestető is Hungary's highest mountain, at 1,014 metres above sea level. It lies 12 km northeast of Gyöngyös, in the Mátra range of Heves county. It is Hungary's third most popular tourist attraction, after Lake Balaton and the Danube, and has a number of hotels and skiing pistes. The Kékestető TV Tower stands near the summit. The name Kékes is derived from the mountain's often bluish colour. In Hungarian, the word kék means 'blue', while kékes means implicitly 'bluish'.

In 1889 the Mátra Division of the Hungarian Carpathian Association built a 20-meter-high lookout tower made of wood that was named as Mátra tower. Practically unknown until 1918, the mountain quickly became well-known as Hungary's highest mountain after the treaty of Paris (Trianon) in 1920 reduced the country's size to only about 28% of the size of the former Kingdom of Hungary. A great-scale development started in Kékestető in the 1930's The present-day sanatorium [left] was inaugurated in 1934 as a luxury hotel. Buses started to run and ski runs were created. The decaying wooden lookout tower was pulled down in 1938 and those who wanted to enjoy the panorama from the highest point of the country had to wait till 1980 when the new TV tower was constructed.
Glass no. 3105 is labeled “Kékesszálló a Mátrában / 1000 m magasságban” (‘Kékes Hotel in the Mátra / 1000 m elevation’).

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kékes; http://www.gyongyos-matra.hu/en/info/sights/places/kekesteto.html; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Trianon]