Not far from Budapest, in the outskirts of Táborfalva, a board stops the arriving: "Keep out! Entry is dangerous and forbidden!" The Forbidden Zone starts here, the second biggest shooting and drill ground in Hungary, where military field exercises have been performed for one and a half century....
In the 1850s, according to a Transylvanian legend, a fearsome beast was rampaging in the Retyezat mountains, which was impossible to destroy because of its witchcraft. But Duke Schwarzenberg, the Habsburg governor of Transylvania, a fearless hunter who did not believe in this peasant superstition,...