else in the world. Even the cloud passing above us seems to dress in pink here. This is my very homeland.” Another recitation of his shows his humour: “People have a drink when a Hungarian is born, people have a drink as well when a Hungarian passes away, why would he be sober between the two occasions?” Mikszáth’s friend, the famous Hungarian painter, Gyula Benczúr (1844 Nyíregyháza – 1920 Dolány /now called Benczúrfalva/) visited him in Horpács to buy an estate in his neighbourhood, but things worked out like another way. Sights The Kálmán Mikszáth Memorial House in the Mikszáth mansion is located by the Szontágh mansion in a park in the middle of the village External links The Homepage of Horpács Kálmán Mikszáth Memorial House Populated places in Nógrád County