Since 1996 the thousand year-old Benedictine Archabbey of Pannonhalma has been part of World Heritage Sites. The Baroque complex incoporates original Romanesque and Gothic structures. The three-nave 13th-century basilica with its Gothic vault still stands today, including the lierne-vaulted sanctuary. The Romanesque crypt below preserves the ...

Covering a marshy area of approximately 30 hectares dotted by shrubbery, tussocks, reed beds and islets, this unique buffalo reservation greets visitors with walking paths and a herd of genuine Hungarian grey cattle.

Covering 74 hectares this is the largest arboretum in Hungary. It is best known for the several thousand rhododendron bushes of 300 species planted over a 13 hectare area, and small groups of coniferous trees of the same variety planted together. This arboretum, the most beautiful collection of trees in Western Transdanubia, is planted around ...

Opened in 1628, the quarry today is a tourist sight reminiscent of the Egyptian rock temples. Many million years ago the area was covered by sea. Snails, cockles, muscles, clams, the remains of milliards of simple life forms with calcareous skeletons contributed to forming the Lajta limestone mined here. The twelve million year old rock ...

The arboretum and the park woods around the Pannonhalma Abbey are designed to preserve and visualise the natural assets of the landscape, as well as enhancing the aesthetic value of the archabbey's World Heritage buildings. Several hundred varieties of trees and shrubs live in the abbey's arboretum. Some are rare species found only in a very ...

The upper floor of the castle 's southern and southeastern wing hosts the Town Museum's exhibitions. On display are the relics of Kőszeg, the castle and its defender Nicholas Jurisic, as well as a unique relic of viticulture, the Book of New Vine Shoots. The exhibition entitled Pictures from the history of Kőszeg (Képek Kőszeg ...

One of Hungary's wealthiest aristocratic families, the Esterházys had their splendid palace, the 'Hungarian Versailles' built between 1720 and 1766.  Today the centre for Hungarian Haydn research is a museum and an important cultural venue. Apart from the Baroque theatre, the building complex of this resplendent palace has remained ...

The area of the Fertő and Hanság is a particularly beautiful island of nature in the western gate of Hungary. The entire Lake Fertő/Neusiedlersee, both the Hungarian and the Austrian parts, was pronounced as joint World Heritage.

Built between 1290 and 1340 in a Gothic style, in 1681 the Fire Tower was made even taller. The balcony offers visitors an unparalleled view of the city. With its Renaissance circular arcade it originally served as a fire watchtower. At one time, visitors arriving to the city had to pass a causeway to reach the city gate, the large square ...

Examples of the region's vernacular architecture were rebuilt around the backwaters of the River Zala and an existing watermill. Visitors enter the open-air village museum via the reception building, a house evoking the old, early 19th century lower gentry homes typical in Western Transdanubia, and in particular in Zala. A special village has ...

The 'Greatest Hungarian', István Széchenyi (1791-1860), founder of the Hungarian Academy of Science, initiator of the construction of the Chain Bridge and outstanding politician of the Reform Period, lived here.

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. Not only of a strategic and defensive nature, it also had a status role as the centre of ...

The Lake Fertő is the third largest lake of Central Europe. The whole lake area, including the Austrian side, has been a World Heritage Site since 2001 for its natural assets and built environment.The Hungarian Fertő region is made up of the Fertőmellék Hills range (Fertőmelléki-dombsor), 75 square kilometres of the lake, and the southeast ...

Setting out from the main entrance to the palace and stretching for over two kilometres this row of linden trees is among Europe's loveliest tree-lined avenues. It is a nature reserve.

A representative exhibition of the life work of prominent 20th-century Hungarian sculptor, Miklós Borsos (1906-93), found a befitting home in a house built in the 17th-18th century atop ruins of a medieval bishop's palace. The many works are representative of the whole of the art of Miklós Borsos. The granite and marble carved pieces, ...

The buildings here are typical examples of Western Transdanubian, wooden-structured houses rooted in medieval traditions. The museum consists of three crofts. The buildings of two crofts were preserved on their original plots, while the third, the 'smoky' house, was moved here from its original site. The houses were made with an open chimney. ...

Created in 2002 the Őrség National Park includes the Őrség Landscape Protection Area established in 1978, the area of the Inner Őrség and the undisturbed parts of Rába Valley which runs along the boundary of the area. 3104 hectares of Park territories are strictly protected.

Visitors may become familiar with the architectural and interior design characteristic of the 18th-century palaces of the aristocracy. An exhibition introduces the history of the lavish palace and its park, as well as the work of Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Among the luxurious furnishings brought from throughout the world, the then fashionable ...

The best-known Romanesque church in Hungary, the church of the former Benedictine abbey of Ják was dedicated in 1256. This architectural masterpiece holds artistic treasures such as Romanesque frescos and Gothic statues.

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 three-nave basilican church captivates by its monumental walls made from painstakingly dressed ashlars and structured by narrow ...