Ferenc Esterházy, a great friend of the French-style gardens surrounding Europe's baroque palaces established Hungary's first English-style landscape-garden in Tata in 1783. Who suggsted the idea is unkown. 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 new style. The park surrounding the castle and the landscape-garden soon made Tóváros famous. 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 following words in his diary about his day 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 alluresf to walking. Do not let yourself upset by the whistle and rattle of the trains dashing behind the trees. The park is still there...