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Festetics Palace is a Baroque country house in Keszthely, begun by Count Kristóf Festetics in 1745 and enlarged over more than a century, most recently in the 1880s to designs by Viktor Rumpelmayer. One of Hungary's three largest country houses, it has housed the Helikon Palace Museum since 1974, with its library wing and period interiors open to visitors.
The Balaton Museum in Keszthely was founded in 1898 by the Balaton Museum Association and moved into its current Neo-Baroque building, designed by Dénes Györgyi, in 1928. It gathers archaeological, ethnographic, historical and natural-science material from around Lake Balaton, a collection that merged in 1936 with the Darnay Museum of Sümeg.
Lake Hévíz, in the town of Hévíz near Keszthely, is the largest swimmable natural thermal lake in Europe. Its water rises from two springs in a 38-metre cave and is fully replaced roughly every three and a half days, keeping the lake between 33-35°C in summer and around 22°C in winter. Water lilies, introduced in 1898, now cover much of its surface.
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