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In the embrace of the
Bakony and Lake Balaton
Region of unparalleled beauty
Veszprém County, with its millennial historical, religious, folk crafts, or the masterpieces of the local gastronomy or
and cultural values, and held in the embrace of the Bakony winemaking, as well as by the many high-quality cultural
Mountains and Lake Balaton, is a region of unparalleled and musical programmes. We celebrate everything with
beauty in Hungary. festivals: dance, our arts and traditions, the street music,
It covers an area of 4,493 square kilometres and has a the naughty children, and the summer that brings joy and
population of about 360 thousand people living in 217 love.
towns and villages. The romantic landscapes of the forests And the show must go on, because we have known, since
of Bakony with their streams and caves, the cool water of Shakespeare, that “all the world’s a stage, and all men and
Lake Balaton, and the more than one thousand monu- women merely players”. Veszprém County is proud that
ments promise visitors many unforgett able experiences our talented actors and actresses stand on the stages of sev-
and entice them to stay even longer or to return. eral theatres from week to week.
No matter from which direction the visitors arrive, while Come and see our thousand-faceted county, the heritage
roaming, they will encounter the works of both nature we are proud of; visit our towns and villages which beco-
and the local people in great abundance at any time of me more and more beautiful! A thousand adventures are
the year. They will be impressed by the architecture, the waiting for you!
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