The now ruined Romanesque-style basilica and abbey was erected in the 11th century and later rebuilt in Gothic style. A cemetery chapel and a cemetery have been excavated, as well as a medieval stonewall embracing the whole building complex. Due to the presence of the abbey an important cultic and cultural centre evolved in Somogyvár. Thus the ...

Unique in the area, the collection today numbers more than 200 cloaks. The first mantle was gifted by Countess Katalin Széchenyi in 1747, an example subsequently followed by many. The museum is housed in the building of the former monastery linked with the church of the sacred statue of the Virgin Mary. Donated by worshippers praying to the ...

The memorial exhibition contains photographs, writings, manuscript copies and artwork, all memoirs of one of the greatest 20th-century Hungarian poets who spent the last days of his life in this pension. The permanent exhibit, consisting of material owned by the Petőfi Museum of Hungarian Literature, includes copies of Attila József ...

The birth house of the great composer Imre Kálmán is home to his memorial house. The master's piano is on display, as are his original scores, some of his personal belongings and numerous mementos of famous artists enacting operettes he composed. The upper room hosts temporary art exhibitions.---Balaton travel, Balaton sights, lake ...

Ödön Abrudbányai-Rédiger had the mansion built in 1939 and commissioned the marble honeymoon sculpture in memory of his lost love. Today's couples can look forward to eternal love standing in this marble nuptial room with its life-size sculptures. With this fantastic 'altar of love' the man in love put this memorial to his bride he had ...

Imre Makovecz, an architect who has fused the traditions of vernacular architecture with the most modern techniques, designed this truly unusual Lutheran church.As in most of the architect's other buildings, wood, as a natural building material, is dominant. The tower is crowned with a Cross that emerges from the Tree of Life, symbolising that ...

The exhibition From the Post-chaise to the Mobile Post presents the history of postal transportation as well as displaying news and broadcasting equipment. Mail vans and postage collection boxes can be seen in the yard. Old maps provide evidence that postal services have been operating in the village since 1789. The old relay station consisted ...

Originally Gothic, the church was expanded with a Baroque nave in the 1700's. It had already become a place of pilgrimage in the 1600's as several miraculous incidents are connected to the Mary of Andocs. It is interesting to note that the statue of piety is dressed every second Friday.The 1332-37 papal tithe records make note of a parish in the ...

The Music Pavilion in front of the train station is the site of Imre Varga's bronze statute of Imre Kálmán, the composer of the most popular Hungarian operetta, the Czardas Princess (Csárdáskirálynő).--------Lake Balaton, Balaton sights, Balaton travel, Hungary travel

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Awarded the Europa Nostra Award in 1995, the several hundred year-old building complex of the Szántódpuszta farmstead is a faithful guardian of Hungarian agricultural history. Displaying other treasures of culture and civilization as well, it provides an excellent opportunity for relaxation. The farmhands' houses of the old manor's estate have ...

This neo-Gothic chapel was built in 1856. It once belonged to the Körmendy family. Renovated in the 1970's it is today an exhibition space. Today the chapel can be visited only in the summer during exhibitions.----Balaton travel, Balaton sights, lake Balaton, Hungary sights

The 'little brothers' of the Tapolca Basin remnant volcanic hills are the Castle Hill (233 m) and Sipos Hill (207 m). The rock of Castle Hill is solidified basalt, the result of earlier volcanic activity. To climb to the top of Castle Hill, pass the Roman Catholic church on Church Street (Templom utca) to reach Kossuth Forest where there is a ...

Zamárdi was named after the Donkey Stone (Szamárkő) which can be reached following a footpath leading from the railway station and marked with red. The solitary group of rocks is an ancient sacrificial site. It was called the Devil Stone in the Árpád Age.

The exhibition of these decorated eggs is a speciality of folk art. It is a true treasury of folk motives although more modern and creative examples of decoration are also on display.

The Port Inn of Szántód built in 1839 has been carefully refurbished and is today a restaurant. Its twin establishment at Tihany was torn down in the 20th century. Once passengers waited in these inns for the arrival of the ferry. In high season four motorised ferries continuously transport travellers across the lake. For centuries crossings ...

Covering 31,240 acres, this is an area similar to Little Balaton (Kis-Balaton), a combination of marshy tracts (underground water rising and spreading over low grounds), reedy marsh, and boggy swamps. Inscrutable for strangers to the area the Great Bog (Nagy-Berek) is a labyrinth of small, sandy islands and ponds surrounded by reeds.

This modern church was built in 1947. Its walls are of red sandstone and its fascinating roof is determined by a concrete beam structure.