What else to do...
Well, I am really lucky as my family has a summer house in a small village close to Keszthely. Every minute you can spend there, worth it truly.
Let me share with you some more things to do in the close area of Keszthely.
Inside the city there are many things to see, lot of museums are waiting for you. First there is the Balaton Museum about the natural and cultural life of Lake Balaton as well as about history of sailing and shipping.
Keszthely is really famous about his fine art and you can visit many many interesting show-offs. Most known is maybe the marzipan museum, where you can see extraordinary fancy cakes.
If you want to be shocked, there is a Horror Museum, where you can see different types of mortifying tools.
Little more nicer, there is the Doll Museum to visit, the greatest doll museum of Central Europe.
This is all about culture but I can not forget to mention the summer life of this place.
The water quality of the Lake Balaton is better from year to year. Keszthely is on the nord side of Balaton, with great beaches and harbor, what makes shipping connections with other cities at the cost. This harbor is very popular for whom like to sail. The nightlife of the city and the area is crowding, many great restaurants, pubs and discos are waiting for guests.
The result is one of the three largest country houses in Hungary.
The counts Festetics were progressive landowners: Kristóf Festetics founded a hospital, Pál Festetics established a school in the town, and in 1797, Count György Festetics opened an Agricultural University, the Georgikon, Europe's first agricultural college, which is still in operation as a faculty of the University of Pannonia.
The library wing was built by György Festetics in 1799—1801, with guidance from András Fischer of the Vienna Academy. Execution was entrusted to local artisans. The dining room (now a concert hall) has stucco decor by Mátyás Vathner from the town of Pápa. Stonework was executed by the local mason József Zitterbart, locksmithing by a local master craftsman, József Dobrolán, tiled stoves by József Pittermann and inlaid floors and woodwork by master carpenter János Kerbl, who was also responsible for the fittings in the library. The book collection was made available to students of the Georgikon. The great book collection that remains in the castle is the only extensive aristocratic library that survives in Hungary. The result is that the central axis of the garden front is centered on one pavilion of the corps de logis,[2] rather than on the prominent central tower of the extension built in the 1880s, with prominent mansard roofs and richly framed dormer windows typical of the neo-Baroque French Second Empire style, and neo-Renaissance woodwork in some of the interiors; on the entrance side facing the town the axis remains centered on the original baroque structure, now a flanking wing.
The elaborate expansion was carried out for Count Tasziló Festetics[3], who married Lady Mary Douglas-Hamilton (1850-1922) on 2 June 1880,[4] and who entertained Edward, Prince of Wales in October 1885 and again in 1888, during his "incognito" Hungarian visits, accompanied by his great friend the Marquess of Douglas, Festetics' brother-in-law [5] Portraits of Festetics in tartans remain in the palace.
Unlike the surrounding area, the palace was not damaged during World War II. The palace has housed an independent museum (Helikon Castle Museum) since 1974; it is visited by 200,000 people each year.
The parterres in which the palace stands were extended in the nineteenth century with a naturalistic landscape park in the English fashion. There are concerts in the summer seasons.
The stable block now houses a collection of coaches and carriages.
