Helikon library
The most important figure of Keszthely - and of the Festetics family - is György Festetics (1755-1819), who lived in Keszthely from 1791.
Between 1799 and 1801, he built a library wing to the castle and supported the publication of numerous journals and works of fiction. From 1817 he organised the Helikon celebrations twice a year, where he hosted the most renowned poets and writers of Transdanubia. Hence the saying of Dániel Berzsenyi, who called Keszthely "little Hungarian Weimar".
The Helikon Library's collection of around 80,000 volumes was created by the Festetics family. The books include several old encyclopaedias and old prints. It is the largest surviving aristocratic library in Europe. The carved oak furniture in the library's remarkable great hall was made by the Keszthely carpenter János Kerbl.
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