There are more plages along the coast, so everyone can find the best for him or herself. The tradtions of the city, events and its fine position ensure the active relaxation.

This town with 8300 inhabitants is one of the biggest towns on the north-eastern part of the lake. We can reach it from direction of the capital on highway M7, we have to slip off to road 71; on main road 8 we have to slip off at Veszprém, and 10 km long road leads to the town. It has a railway station and a port also.

Balatonalmádi came to existence by fuse of 3 towns: Balatonalmádi, Vörösberény and Káptalanfüred. The oldest and bigges of the others was Vörösberény, it was supposedly named after the "red" ground, which can be seen everywhere all aroud this area. Vörösberény was mentioned in the Memorandum of Association of the Nun Cloister of Veszprém as Szárberény. The villge was donated to cloister with "48 furnaces and 6 fishermen" by St. István.

The smaller town, Balatonalmádi was mentioned first in a charter in 1493, then the hill was covered by winegrapes. Almádi was the property of Chapter of Veszprém. Villas and holiday houses were bulited after wine-pest. After the war of independence 167 houses and 196 wine-cellars were counted.

On the turn of the century naturalteraphy was very popular.The town was pronounced advantaged hoilday resort in 1961. Balatonalmádi obtained city grade in 1989. Various nature, monuments of the past, keep open houses, possibilities of active relaxation make better the days which tourists spend here.

There are more plages along the coast, so everyone can find the best for him or herself. We can find many hotels on the coast, pension and private houses. Restaurants, bars and wine-cellars are waiting for guests with delicious meals and wines. There are also many possibilities to do sport,like swimming, rowing, sailing, playing tennis, playing volleyball, riding bycicle or riding a horse.

The tradtions of the city, events and its fine position ensure the active relaxation.

 

 

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