St. Vid’s Chapel and its surroundings
Thousands of years ago these terraces were designed by the people who were living in the Bronze Age, which have been continuously inhabited throughout history. Climbingup the only slope of our way, let’s take a look at the rock ridge which was apparently broken by human hands. On the side of the cliff we see a startling example of the nature’s struggle for the existence: an old beech tree with roots weaving on the rock. Reaching the chapel we reach the highest point of the St. Vid Hill. It ’s not a coincidence that during the Roman Empire a watchtower stood on the foundations in front of the chapel. They protected the plumbing system from here that supplied the former Savaria, today Szombathely with the water of the mountains of Kőszeg. On the stairs next to the chapel we can descend one terrace lower. From here we can really see the terrace system of the former settlement.
