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Our heritage

our grandchildren will see

10 percent of Hungary’s monuments are located in Veszp- In Balácapuszta, located a few kilometres from Veszprém,

rém County. The 1,178 sites represent all ages and styles we can admire a villa estate dating from Roman times.

from the Roman times: most, about 400 historical monu- The castle district of Veszprém, built on a cliff, with its se-
ments can be connected to the 18th century, while more ries of continuous monumental buildings is unique even in
than eighty originate from the 12th to 15th centuries, and Hungary. It has been a diocesan (now archdiocesan) seat

we have nearly five hundred masterpieces of the folk ar- since 1001. The deeds list St. Michael’s Cathedral as “the
chitecture. first and oldest cathedral in Hungary”.

Tés, a small village on the top of the Bakony Mountains, is Our monuments include the building of the County Hall,
proud to have windmills built in the 1840s, which are re- which was built in Neo-Renaissance style based on the
gistered as industrial monuments and one of them is still designs of the young architect István Kiss from Budapest
operating. The specially shaped, circular church with a do- in 1887.

med roof, built in the 11th and 12th centuries, in the neigh- In the town of Pápa, the more than 100 baroque monu-
bouring village Öskü can be seen from the main road. ments entice visitors to take a long walk. The main square

At the top of Somló Hill, the ruins of a castle built in the is dominated by the Great Catholic Church, built in the

13th century can be seen; there is a wonderful view of classicizing late Baroque style. The series of murals depict-
the orderly vineyards and the Bakony Mountains from ing St. Stephen I and the Hungarian saints was painted by
up there. Maulbertsch.

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