Parád is a large village in Heves County, Hungary, in the Mátra mountain range, the bottom of the northern side of the Kékes peak, beside of the Parádi-Tarna creek.

Prince Francis II Rákóczi established a glass huta called Parádóhuta, which he later moved to Parádsasvár.

The first bath house was built in 1795 by Baron József Orczy [hu], the owner of the estate.

Noble and aristocratic families traveled to the Parade in the hope of healing, physical and spiritual strengthening.

The village was owned by the Károlyi family for almost a hundred years from 1847, who enriched the settlement with numerous architectural values.

Later the family built the Erzsébet Park Hotel, opposite the hospital, based on the designs of Miklós Ybl in 1893.

[3] The palóc people's household objects and other memories still visible in the folk museum, close to it the exhibition of wood carver Joachim Asztalos.

At the southeastern end of Parádóhuta, on the edge of the forest, there is the source of iron-lithium-containing sour water (Clarissa, named after Countess Clarisse Kornis [hu]), which increases the temperature of the body with its carbonic acid content, accelerates blood circulation, and is important in blood formation due to its iron content.

For the treatments, almost pure carbon dioxide, formed during the volcanic after-action and bursting to the surface from a depth of 1000 m, is used.

[4] The walks in the Ilona valley are also recommended, which is famous for its row of chestnut trees, the waterfall and the sulfur bicarbonate spring named after King Saint Stephen.

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