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Our heritage

our grandchildren will see

10 percent of Hungary’s monuments are located in Veszprém The castle district of Veszprém, built on a cliff, with its series

County. The 1,178 sites represent all ages and styles from the of continuous monumental buildings is unique even in Hun-
Roman times: most, about 400 historical monuments can be gary. It has been a diocesan (now archdiocesan) seat since

connected to the 18th century, while more than eighty origi- 1001. The deeds list St. Michael’s Cathedral as “the fi rst and
nate from the 12th to 15th centuries, and we have nearly fi ve oldest cathedral in Hungary”.
hundred masterpieces of the folk architecture. Our monuments include the building of the County Hall,
Tés, a small village on the top of the Bakony Mountains, is which was built in Neo-Renaissance style based on the de-
proud to have windmills built in the 1840s, which are regis- signs of the young architect István Kiss from Budapest in
tered as industrial monuments and one of them is still operat- 1887.

ing. The specially shaped, circular church with a domed roof, In the town of Pápa, the more than 100 baroque monuments

built in the 11th and 12th centuries, in the neighbouring vil- entice visitors to take a long walk. The main square is domi-
lage Öskü can be seen from the main road. nated by the Great Catholic Church, built in the classicizing

At the top of Somló Hill, the ruins of a castle built in the 13th late Baroque style. The series of murals depicting St. Stephen
century can be seen; there is a wonderful view of the orderly I and the Hungarian saints was painted by Maulbertsch.
vineyards and the Bakony Mountains from up there.
In Balácapuszta, located a few kilometres from Veszprém, we
can admire a villa estate dating from Roman times.

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