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A tihanyi visszhang;Tihanyi visszhang (statue)
This statue, titled A tihanyi visszhang (“the echo of Tihany”), points to one of Tihany’s best-known natural phenomena: after the 18th-century mid-building of the present Benedictine abbey, words shouted from the hillside can ring back from the abbey’s northern side. From the Visszhang-domb the sound travels to the abbey about 300 metres away, returning in about two seconds—an out-and-back distance of roughly 700 metres. In the best conditions, the echo repeats seven syllables from the Tihany church. On the slope, people set up a small column called an “echókő”—the spot from which you were meant to call toward the church. …
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