LOCATION

Three little villages, Palkonya, Nagyharsány and Kisharsány provide the base locations for the festival. The gymnasium in Nagyharsány is transformed into a theatre (just like the Palkonya village-house and the Kisharsány barn). Theatre is probably the most popular genre of the Ördögkatlan, and at this now five-day-long event, people have to fight through crowds to get into a show – we could say only the strongest and most desperate few do so. That’s the way it is, despite the fact that we try to provide a great variety, like having had 50 shows last year, and slightly more this summer, the Nagyharsány sports court provides stage to the most popular rock-bands, and the ones that are less known to Hungary are also invited (such as the American Firewater in 2010, and the German BudZillus in 2011).

Palkonya is firstly a world music and folk music center, within its church, classical concerts are held, which the churches of the other two villages also provide grounds for. The lovely terrace of the Vylyan Winery is for literature and jazz for these five days, apart from the very best Hungarian representatives of the genre, we had one of the greatest legends of saxophonists, Chris Potter from New York to perform here, and also the greatest figures of Hungarian literature, from Péter Esterházy to György Konrád, from János Háy to György Spiró. It must be said that this location was also the Best Winery of 2009 - just as a reminder that these lands are the most important wineyards of our country.

We have to spare a word for Kisharsány especially, where a synergistic group, the Mediawave team famous for their independent film festival, organises part of the programme. They hold photography, film, music and architecture workshops, as well as reach out to cultures that we don’t really get to meet in these tiny Hungarian settlements. Day by day, miraculous encounters take place between creators and consumers of art in an extraordinary, and yet ever-so-natural fashion; one wouldn’t dare to dream it’d all work out in such a way. Ukrainian, Turkish, Moroccan, Indian and Hungarain-gypsy people making music together, and spending time with the good old Mr and Mrs Kisharsány, who possibly never in their lives left the village before.

Beremend - the scene of the great outdoors classical music concerts: Mozart's Requiem, Symphony 9 from Beethoven, as well as Félix Lajkó's and the Dohnányi Symphony Orchestra's concerts were intoned here.

Nagyharsány

A small village, at the hillside of Szársomlyó, inhabited by 1730 people at the southern slope of the Villány mountains. There are many classicist farmhouses built during the previous century, and the old cellars are also outstanding. Its gothic styled, Calvinist temple is one of the locations of the European Winesong festival.


Kisharsány
It lies at the feet of the Siklós-Villány mountains, a home for 562 people. The village is a part of the “Wineroad” formed in the wine region. In the nearby area, there are mostly wineyards and winerie. Its Calvinist church is a national monument.


Vylyan Wineyards and Winery
The winery lying in beautiful surroundings isn’t famous only because of its fine wines – they tend to grasp every opportunity to combine arts with wines, regardless of the type of art. They support happily – as in the case of the Devils Cauldron Festival – the fresh, open, talented proposals.

Palkonya
Palkonya, a village for 370 inhabitants in Southern-Baranya has maintained the architectural heritage of the German vintners settled to this region in the 18th century. The most notable architectural landmark of the village is the row of wine cellars consisting of 53 press houses on the hill at the end of the village. These press houses have been built gradually over the golden age of winemaking and grape growing at the beginning of the 19th century. Their whitewashed facades are still a gripping site today. More and more tourists of the Siklós-Villány Wine Route enjoy visiting these cellars full of blazing red wines and vintners’ hospitality.

Beremend
Beremend (Croatian: Breme) is a village in Baranya county, Hungary. Residents are Magyars, with minority of Serbs. The southest point of Hungary, a border to Croatia. The Chapel of Reconciliation (Megbékélés kápolna) was built on the viewpoint from where the refugees of the Yugoslav Wars watched as their villages and churces were being demolished in the inhuman destruction, on the other side of the border. It is also a memorial for all the in 1946 deportees, who were from Beremend and the region. On this viewpoint, the different nationalities and different beliefs joined to build this ecumenical chapel together.