King Andrew's tomb
The only royal grave to survive the Ottomans.
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The Szántód-Tihany ferry runs every half hour in season (seven minutes, cars carried), faster and finer than driving round the lake.
June for lavender and September for post-season quiet; July and August midday belong to the coaches.
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The picture of all Balaton: two yellow towers above the rocky Tihany peninsula, looking over the lake from eighty metres. King Andrew I founded it in 1055, and its founding crypt beneath the altar is the oldest Hungarian building standing where it was raised — holding the king's own tomb, the only royal grave to survive the Ottoman conquest. The founding charter matters most: the oldest text with Hungarian words among the Latin, the birth certificate of the language. The Baroque church above (eighteenth century) has altars, confessional and pulpit carved by Sebestyén Stuhlhoff, the lay brother who spent twenty-five years cutting them by hand. Behind the abbey a terrace and stair descend to the village: white houses under reed roofs, lavender shops (Tihany is lavender country, its festival in June), and the famous echo at the facing wall. From the pier below the village a ferry crosses to the southern shore in seven minutes.
The only royal grave to survive the Ottomans.
Twenty-five years of one brother's work.
Call at the wall and wait for the lake's reply.
I. András tér 1, Tihany