Oasis

Keszthely


This small vegetarian restaurant down the hill from the palace has buckets of good energy and healthy (if not terribly inspiring) daily menus during the midweek lunch-hour rush.


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Nearby Keszthely attractions

1. Marzipan Museum

0.1 MILES

Partly a museum, but also a good excuse to stop by for coffee and cake if you're visiting the castle next door. It's well worth paying the small admission…

2. Nostalgia Museum

0.17 MILES

This treasure trove of ordinary objects ranging from 1800s antiques to 'retro' items is fun to poke around in, and before you know it, an hour has flown…

3. Erotic Panoptikum

0.18 MILES

Full disclosure: this is an X-rated wax museum. Kind of tacky – yes. Fascinating – absolutely. The tiny subterranean space brings to 'life' lust and sex…

4. Festetics Palace

0.2 MILES

The glimmering white, 100-room Festetics Palace was begun in 1745, and the two wings were extended out from the original building 150 years later. Some 18…

5. Synagogue

0.21 MILES

Before WWII Keszthely’s Jewish community numbered 1000; at the end of the war it had dropped to 170. Today less than 40 Jews live in the town and attend…

6. Museum of Historical Wax Figures

0.22 MILES

This is a surprisingly fun way to acquaint yourself with the who's who of Hungary's rulers, poets, clerics and military commanders. The eclectic…

7. Doll Museum

0.22 MILES

This surprisingly absorbing museum showcases two floors' worth of dolls dressed in folk costumes from all parts of Hungary. On the ground floor, there's…

8. Snail Parliament

0.22 MILES

What do you get when you take one woman's obsession, 14 years of loving labour, and 4.5 million snail shells? A 7m by 2.5m scale model of Budapest's…