Esterházy-kastély
The Esterházy-kastély here is first and foremost a house of continuity: it began as the centre of Szigliget’s private estate, then—after the Second World War—became a state-supported creative workplace. Its earliest predecessor does not appear on the 1784 military survey map, and the later late-Baroque noble manor is generally dated to about 1785–87, commissioned by the Lengyel family of Lengyeltóti. Even today, two ground-floor rooms with vaulted ceilings can still be identified, each with a terrace above. In 1807, the last male of the Lengyel line, Lengyel (III.) Gáspár, died. Through his three daughters, the Szigliget estate passed to Baroness Puteani Vencelné Lengyel Krisztina, linking the property to the Italian-origin Puteani family. …
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