The Landscape-garden
Ferenc
Esterházy, a great friend of the French-style gardens surrounding Europe's
baroque palace establishes Hungary' first English-style landscape-garden
in Tata in 1783. Who suggested the idea is unknown. It might be the beauty
of the park that was created on the land, drained by Sámuel Mikoviny, surrounding
the new castle or the romanticism of the springs at the foot of Frog Hill
which inspired the count to entrust Ferenc Bőhm with designing the park's
style. The park surrounding the castle and the landscape-garden soon made
Tóvárosfamous. Nevertheless, it was not the garden's fame which attracted
Ferenc Karsa to Tata in 1849. The officer, who saw service at general Görgey's
headquarters in Tóváros wrote the folowing words in his diary about his
days in June: "The Count's garden is an abundant source of nature's beauty
with its tarns, lake of swans, winding streams and a Turkish mosque towering
in the middle. I spent all my spare-time rambling in that garden."
The garden still allures to walking. Do not let yourself upset by the whistle
and rattle of the trains dashing behind the trees. The park is still there...
