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The land of the echo, lavender and goat-nail shells
The only pensinsula of Lake Balaton attracts
roughly a million visitors throughout the year due
to its beautiful location, geological formations,
historic monuments and flora and fauna.
The Benedictine Abbey, which also hosts
concerts in the summer and exhibitions and other
cultural events from autumn to spring, celebrated
its 950th anniversary in 2005. The museum of
the abbey welcomes visitors with temporary
exhibitions.
Among its attractions you can find the monks’
houses carved into the side of the old fortress, the
cells, the chapel and refectory carved into the rock
by Greek Orthodox hermits between the 11th
and 14th centuries.
The most beautiful 20th century stations of the
cross were built by public donations within a few
years starting in 1926. The Romanesque crypt with
three domes commissioned by King András I in
1055 (at the same time as the founding of the
monastery) is the only preserved royal burial
chamber in Hungary. The king who died in 1060 is
buried here. A copy of the foundation deed of the
abbey, which is also the oldest document in
Hungarian, can also be found here. Several legends
are linked to Tihany.
The oldest Balaton Guide from 1848 claimed
the tourists to Balatonfüred took an excursion to
Tihany to listen to the echo as the wall of the
church on the Echo Hill would clearly repeat a
quickly uttered 15-syllable sentence.
The Tihany Echo remarked by various poets
has gradually become weaker since the 1860s
although on clear evenings with no wind it would
still repeat our words.
TIHANY
Museums, exhibitions
Doll Museum
Visszhang u. 4. • Tel.: +36-87/448-431
Open: 12 April – 31 May: 10 – 17
1 June – 31 August: 10 – 19
1 Sept. – 30 Sept.: 10 – 17
Entrance fees: Adult: 400 HUF
Student, Pensioner: 300 HUF
School groups: 200 HUF
Benedictine Abbey and Museum
I. András tér 1. • Tel.: +36-87/538-200
Open: 1 April – 30 April: 10 – 17
1 May – 30 Sept.: 9 – 19
1 Oct. – 31 Oct.: 10 – 17
1 Nov. – 31 March: 10 – 16
Entrance fees: Adult: 700 HUF, Child, pensioner: 300 HUF
Open Air Ethnographic Museum
Pisky sétány 12. • Tel.: +36-87/714-960
Open: 1 May – 30 September: 9 – 18
Entrance fees: Adult: 350 HUF, Student: 250 HUF
Groups (adult) 10 people or over: 250 HUF
Hungarian Kings Wax Museum
and Pirate Museum
Kossuth u. 35. • Tel.: +36-30/9468-220
Open: 1 March – 30 Sept. Every day 10 – 18
1 Oct. – 28 Febr.: open to group if pre-booked
Entrance fees: (including the guided tour):
School and pensioner groups: 400 HUF
Children, student and pensioner: 800 HUF
Adult/groups: 800 HUF/1.200 HUF
Marcipan Museum
Batthyány u. 17. Tel.: +36-30/216-8191
Open: 1 April – 31 October Every day 10 – 18
Entrance fees: Adult 280 HUF, Student: 180 HUF
Hungarian History (Audiovisual attraction)
Postaköz 1. Tel.: +36-30/864-8373
Open: Every day 11 – 17
Entrance fees:
Adult: 500 HUF, Pensioner: 400 HUF, Student: 250 HUF