Western Transdanubia Sights
One of Hungary's wealthiest aristocratic families, the
Esterházys had their splendid palace, the 'Hungarian
Versailles' built between 1720 and 1766.
Monuments
This Baroque palace is interesting from an architectural perspective. Its importance is enhanced by the fact that Stephen Széchenyi once lived here - the man honoured as "the greatest Hungarian".
In 1873, the Nádasdy Family rebuilt this originally
Baroque-style 18th-century mansion as a harmoniously proportioned Romantic
palace.
Built from 1199 to 1212 this Romanesque church still preserves
its original early 13th-century shape. Most of the current ornamentations and
of the furnishings, however, date from a 19th-century refurbishment.
The walled town and the castle within were part of
the national defence system. The Gothic inner castle built in the
13th-14th-century was later refurbished in a Renaissance and Baroque style.
The castle evolved continuously from the 13th-century onwards.
The best-known Romanesque church in Hungary, the church of the former Benedictine abbey of Ják was dedicated in 1256.
Standing in the centre of town, the building complex of the
Baroque palace acquired its present form between 1730 and 1745.
