Hungary
Western Transdanubia
Zala County

Keszthely

Keszthely is a city of 20,895 inhabitants located on the western shore of . It is the second largest city by the lake and one of the more important cultural, educational and economic hubs in the region.
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  • Type: Town with 17,800 residents
  • Description: city in Hungary
  • Also known as: “Keszthelyi”
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Festetics Castle and Keszthely railway station.

Museum
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The Festetics Palace is a Baroque palace located in the town of Keszthely, , . The building now houses the Helikon Palace Museum. The palace's construction, started by Kristóf Festetics in 1745, lasted more than a century.

Railway station
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Church
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gyenesdiás and Vonyarcvashegy.

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is a lovely resort village only 100 km from the western border of , in the West region 15 km from the Hévíz-Balaton Airport. The towns of Keszthely, known for its fascinating Festetics Palace, and with its world famous spa are only a few kilometres from here.

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is a town and tourist resort on the north shore of , in western . The settlement was created when the former Vonyarc and Vashegy settlements were united in 1850.

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is a spa town in the region of , about 8 km from Keszthely.

Keszthely

Latitude
46.7675° or 46° 46′ 3″ north
Longitude
17.2463° or 17° 14′ 47″ east
Population
17,800
Elevation
128 metres (420 feet)
United Nations Location Code
HU KEZ
Open location code
8FRVQ69W+2G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 88984459
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3050212
Wiki­data ID
Q526335
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Keszthely” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كيزتيلي”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kesthey”
  • Basque: “Keszthely”
  • Belarusian: “Кестхей”
  • Belarusian: “Кэстхэй”
  • Bengali: “কেজথেলি”
  • Bulgarian: “Кестхей”
  • Catalan: “Keszthely”
  • Cebuano: “Keszthely”
  • Chinese: “Keszthely”
  • Chinese: “凯斯特海伊”
  • Chinese: “凱斯特海伊”
  • Croatian: “Kestel”
  • Croatian: “Keszthely”
  • Czech: “Blatenský kostel”
  • Czech: “Keszthely”
  • Danish: “Keszthely”
  • Dutch: “Keszthely”
  • Esperanto: “Keszthely”
  • Estonian: “Keszthely”
  • Finnish: “Keszthely”
  • French: “Keszthely”
  • German: “Keszthely”
  • Greek: “Κέζτελι”
  • Hebrew: “קסטהיי”
  • Hungarian: “Keszthely”
  • Indonesian: “Keszthely”
  • Irish: “Keszthely”
  • Italian: “Keszthely”
  • Japanese: “ケストヘイ”
  • Korean: “케스트헤이”
  • Lithuanian: “Kesthėjus”
  • Lombard: “Keszthely”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Keszthely”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Keszthely”
  • Malay: “Keszthely”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Keszthely”
  • Moksha: “Кэстгэй”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Keszthely”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Keszthely”
  • Norwegian: “Keszthely”
  • Ossetian: “Кестхей”
  • Persian: “کرستهی”
  • Persian: “کست‌هی”
  • Polish: “Keszthely”
  • Portuguese: “Keszthely”
  • Romanian: “Keszthely”
  • Russian: “Кестхей”
  • Serbian: “Kesthelj”
  • Serbian: “Кестхељ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Keszthely”
  • Slovak: “Keszthely”
  • Slovenian: “Blatenski Kostel”
  • Slovenian: “Blatograd”
  • Slovenian: “Keszthely”
  • Spanish: “Keszthely”
  • Swedish: “Keszthely”
  • Turkish: “Keszthely”
  • Ukrainian: “Кестгей”
  • Ukrainian: “Кестхей”
  • Vietnamese: “Keszthely”
  • Welsh: “Keszthely”
  • “Keszthely”

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