Zala County

sights.uz lists 11 historic and notable places in Zala County, Hungary. Among them are 3 monuments, 4 eco-tourism sites and 4 museums.

Festetics Palace

The Festetics Palace is a Baroque palace located in the town of Keszthely, Zala, Hungary. The building now houses the Helikon Palace Museum.

Göcsej Village Museum

The Göcsej Village Museum open-air museum in Zalaegerszeg. This is the first open-air museum in Hungary, opened in 1968. The village museum lies not far from the centre of…

Finno-Ugric Ethnographic Park

The Finno-Ugric Ethnographic Park in Zalaegerszeg, an outdoor exhibition established on the Göcsej Village Museum site, deals with the residential buildings, economic structures,…

Vadlán Hole

Vadlán-lik is one of the basalt-formed caves located in Nagygörbő. Compared to other Hungarian basalt caves it is considered a large basalt cave. It is one of the four Vadlán-lik…

Cserszegtomaj Wellcave

The Cserszegtomaj Wellcave is one of the specially protected caves of Hungary. Its peculiarity is its small horizontal extension relative to its size and, consequently, its…

Municipium Aelium Salla

Aelium Salla municipium is a Roman‑period settlement located in the present inner area of the town of Zalalövő in the Transdanubian region. It is a partially excavated, visitable…

Balaton Museum

In 1898, the Balaton Museum Association was founded in Keszthely – among others at the initiative of Árpád Csák and Sándor Lovassy. The museum building was constructed between…

Keszthely-Fenékpuszta (Castellum)

The inland castrum Keszthely-Fenékpuszta was in the Roman Empire a part of the Pannonian Limes (Limes Pannonicus). The excavation site lies today in the district Fenékpuszta of…

Gyenesdiási Vadlány Hole

The Gyenesdiási Vadlány is one of the dolomite caves located in the Balaton Uplands National Park. It is one of the four Vadlány caves in Hungary. The other three are the Rezi…

Hévíz Springcave

The Hévíz spring cave is one of the caves in Hungary that are under heightened protection. The cave and the namesake of Hévíz are the well‑known healing spring. It is the only…

Museum of Hungarian Petroleum and Gas Industry

The Hungarian Oil and Gas Industry Museum is a national collector's museum in the oil district of Zalaegerszeg. Founded in 1969, the museum is the country's largest open‑air…