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Balaton, the Tihany peninsula the hills and bassin (Káli-bassin) north of Balaton





View of Badacsony



The bridge of the motorway



Tihany peninsula  with the ferry (the Balaton is here the most narrow, about 1.5 kms)


The "inner lake" is an independent lake in the moddle of the peninsula - to the right the abbey


The old Hungarian breed of cattle at the "inner lake"


The abbey over the "inner lake"


The spires of the abbey

The abbey and the monastery (now museum)



The interior of the abbey



The gave of the founder, King Andreas the first, in the crypt

View from the abbey to the "inner lake"

and his statue under the abbey


The "geysirs" of the Tihany hills
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The "badger's castle"
In fact, the cones called "geysir cones" are remains of hot water sprins from about 2-3 million years ago, not of proper geysirs but they give a spectacular view


The "triple mountain"



The "pisolite" cone

The "golden house"

houses a little exhibition of minerals which form the hills
The "hatted cone" is one of the spectacular formations, the base being eroded by water and wind


The ruins of the church of the first fishermen's settlement

Balatonfüred
The neoclassicist resort


The villa of one of the most famous Hungarian actresses of the 19th century, Lujza Blaha


Besides the Balaton, the city boasts with a healing water, good for heart diseases




The most famous balls (demonstrating  Hungarian music and dance as a sign of national independence endeavours undedr the Habsburgs) were held here


The "round church"

One of the uses is drinking - a public well is on the square in front of the hospital


 

The post office


Sometimes the style is mixed

The town halll

The promenade


Káli bassin - Hegyestű



Northeast from Tihany, a row of nice villages where sculptors and other artist bought houses
 


renovated and decorated them nicely

One of them even built a calvary





A volcanic eruption and later stone mining created a spectacular basalt wall


And the visitors erected small "columns", like in the high mountains


Basalt in coal



An exhibition of minerals from the area

Dolomite







Sandstone



Keszthely, Veszprém, Zirc - historic cities