Cserszegtomaj, the village with its 1523 inhabitants is situated between Rezi and Keszthely. This is the 3 biggest so-called open community in Hungary, which means that the houses are built in a rambling way. The people here meet their both ends with viniculture and fruit-growing. You can find the baroque Anna Chapel in the cemetery of the Tomaj part of the village. At the corner of the cemetery there is the Cserszegtomaj fountain cave covered with bars. The 52m deep cave with its diameter of 1.2m can be visited only if booked in advance. The length of the cave having been opened till now is 2400m. There is a 28m high observation tower with elevator on the 181m high hill called Bikedteto. The owner of the tower is the botanist, Horváth Jeno, who owns a 20ha big arboretum that can be visited in a 5ha territory with its rare and protected plants (34 different plants, 200 types spruce and evergreens). The Europe Square was established by the city council in commemoration to the millennium in 2000.

We can find out the geography of the village with 1085 inhabitants if we consult linguistics. The name comes from the Hungarian 'rez' meaning things like peak, main peak of a mountain group, plateau, glade in a forest. We added an 'i' to it to make adjective. Its main pont is the ruins of the Rezi castle from 1333 placed on the 418m high dolomite mountain. The remnants walls are 8-10m high and 1.20-1.80m wide. If you climb up to the peak of the mountain, you will experience a wonderful panorama. After that you can visit the touristy main goal, the Gyöngyösi csárda where you can have some good wine and eat some good Hungarian dishes.

The village is situated at the foot of the Karmacsihát on the right side of the steam Gyöngyös and has a population of 817. The steam Karmacsi flows through the place as well. It is a very unique phenomenon that there are more houses in one garden that create a so-called living community. There are 2 sights to visit here. One is the church St Anna from 1862, the other is the remained tower of the earlier gothic church in the cemetery. In front of that we can see a cemetery cross with a railing in baroque style.

The village, Nemesbük with its 571 inhabitants lies on both sides of the Köszvényes stream coming from the Hegyhát (hill's back). The name Bük derives from a tree's name meaning beech tree. And the 'Nemes' refers to the fact that in the earlier times there used to live small noble men, nemes meaning noble in English. More than the half of the inhabitants here worked in the agriculture back in the 1970s, now thanks to the development of Hévíz it has also gone through many modernization and development work. Its most important sight is the baroque church renovated in 1992, that is situated on the place where earlier the so-called St. Katalin chapel stood. A further interesting sight is the stone bridge from the 13. century, which after several renovations we can still use.

The name 'Páhok' is the plural form of 'Páh', which derived from the Hungarian verb 'páhol' meaning a process in leathermaking as tanners used to live here. The village with 560 inhabitants is situated on a hilly region and has been developing constantly thanks to the rebirth of the medical bath culture in Hévíz. The main village sight of the place is the church on the highest point of the village, built in 1872.

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The Kis Balaton, as a huge wetland habitat is unique in the whole of Europe, which is why it has always been recorded by international nature conservation. It is famous for its wonderful world of birds. As a result of the reconstruction of the wetlands in the mid 1980s, the waterfowl were able to return to formerly deserted habitats. The areas of favourable foraging and nesting conditions have increased by flooding of the Kis-Balaton Water Reservoir. Birds occupied the new placessurprisingly fast even in the first year tens of thousands of migrating birds arrived to haverest or to spend the winter here. In addition to 250 species of birds identified so far, we find several other rare animals and plants here. It is worth mentioning the northern vole, dogfish, pond loach and some rare species of dragonflies among them.