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Fertod

This baroque palace, the largest and most beautiful in the country, is known as the "Hungarian Versailles" because of its splendid Baroque-Rococo French garden. Duke Esterhary, who built it, showed off his new home to the Viennese aristocracy in 1770. Joseph Haydn, the world-famous composer lived and composed here for over ten years, conducting the orchestra in the stately home. Today the Fertod mansion is open to the public as a museum.