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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

SHELL-O-LICIOUS DESTINATIONS: Snail Parliament in Keszthely, Hungary

Photo by Ethnographical Museum of Keszthely

Located near the western shore of Lake Balaton, (a 3-hour express train from Budapest) take a trip the Hungarian city of Keszthely to see a shell marvel.

Photo by Ethnographical Museum of Keszthely

Artist, Ilona Miskei (born 1920) created a shell-encrusted scale model of the Hungarian Houses of Parliament in Budapest. Ms. Miskei adorned the structure with 4,5 million fossilized Pannon-sea snail shells she collected from Hungarian mines. The project was started in 1975 and took 14 year to complete.

Photo by Ethnographical Museum of Keszthely

Photo by HolidayClubHeviz

In 1999, Ms. Miskei donated the "Snail Parliament" to the Ethnographical Museum of Keszthely. This amazing work can be viewed at The Doll Museum located at Kossuth Str. 11. in Keszthely.

References for this post / Further Information:

The Snail Parliament history in English:

http://www.csigaparlament.mool.hu/galeria_eng.htm

Official Site of Keszthely in English:

http://www.keszthely.hu/en

Frommers.com / Budapest: Off the Beaten Track:

http://www.frommers.com/destinations/budapest/0047020886.html

Museum prices and location / www.hongaarskinderplezier.eu

http://www.hongaarskinderplezier.eu/indexen.php?pagina=99&att_id=181

About the Pannon Sea/ Quest For the Lost Sea, TV treatment by Martin Chlupac: Part 1 -Forgotten Sea:

http://fredfred.net/skriker/index.php/quest-for-the-lost-sea/

Wikipedia.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keszthely

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonian_Sea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Balaton

HolidayClubHeviz.hu (in Hungarian)

http://holidayclubheviz.hu/programs.php

3 comments:

Cat &amp; CricketNovember 23, 2010 at 11:14 PM
It is truly amazing.. I (my family are from Hungary) and I must say thank you for this post!!!
Love it!!
Cat
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Flotsam FriendsNovember 27, 2010 at 2:55 PM
Stunning! Just amazing. Takes my breath away. Pruxxx
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