Kapolcs

The name of Kapolcs is known both nationally and abroad for its Valley of Arts cultural festival (Művészetek Völgye kulturális fesztivál). This series of events attracts several thousand visitors to Kapolcs and the surrounding villages each summer.

This village on the bank of the Eger Stream played an important role in the Middle Ages. The Via Magna ran alongside it and thus all traffic to the Adriatic Sea crossed the settlement.

Folk tradition has it that the earthen redoubts on the top of King's Stone (Királykő) are the remnants of Attila's castle.

The earliest authentic documentation of the settlement dates from the very early 1200's. It was a royal estate and the the Abbey of Pannonhalma also owned land here.

At one time the village was famed for its millers who produced excellent quality flour, and for its smiths and its potters. Equipped in a period style, the  former mill in Kapolcs is an industrial heritage site, displaying grain samples. The Village Museum (falumúzeum) operates in a 19th-century smithy and has an original open-chimney kitchen and peasant room.

The Baroque-style Roman Catholic church was built in 1783, while its Lutheran church dates to the 17th century.

How to get there:

By car take Route 71 and turn north at Zánka, after 15 kilometres turn left at Nagyvázsony. By public, Kapolcs is served from Veszprém or Tapolca. From the northern Lake Balaton, depending on where you are your best bet may be to take a bus from Zánka to Nagyvázsony and change to a bus on the Veszprém-Tapolca line.