Festetics Castle
The Festetics Palace—Schloss Festetics, the Festetics-kastély—is a Baroque country house in Keszthely that now houses the Helikon Palace Museum. Construction began under Count Kristóf Festetics in 1745, and it took more than a century to complete, starting on the foundations of a ruined castle. Over time, the palace was expanded in two later building campaigns, and its scale was tripled, with the most recent major work carried out in the 1880s to designs by Viktor Rumpelmayer, who lived in Vienna. Rumpelmayer died in 1885, and the project was finished by Gusztáv Haas and Miksa Paschkisch, resulting in one of Hungary’s three largest country houses. The Counts Festetics were also active reformers: in 1797, Count György Festetics opened the Georgikon, described in its time as the first agricultural college of its kind in Europe, and it continues today as a faculty of the University of Pannonia. …
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