Saint Michael monastery ruins - Nagyvázsony

Well, you had to walk a lot from the castle and even from the cemetery. It's in the middle of the forest. Practically it is worth coming here because practically the Kinizsi Castle exhibition is about this monastery. The codes were made here, and Pál Kinizsi was buried here. In the castle, in the castle chapel, you can see the objects that were originally here. So today there is nothing here, everything is on display in the castle, but even today, these glorious walls are still glorious and great.

You have the historic air here!

Very nice. Easy to reach, parking is available at the cemetery.

You can start from the parking lot next to the cemetery by following the blue tourist sign or through the cemetery. Continuing on the blue sign, we also reach the ruins of the Chapel of St. Ilona and the Tálodi Monastery.

From Kinizsi Castle it is worth walking out to the ruins of Pálos Monastery (about 500 meters from the castle in the NW direction outside the village, next to the cemetery). Mainly the floor plan of the church and the adjoining monastery unfolds from the remaining stones, but the end wall of the sanctuary of the church remains at full height, and some of the walls of the monastery close to the church still consist of a few. The St. Michael's Monastery was founded by the legendary Turkish warlord Pál Kinizsi and his father-in-law Balázs Magyar, the famous commander of the Black Army, in the ancient homeland of the Bakony, in the "home of silence", west of Vázsony Castle, sometime between 1480-1483. According to legendary tradition, the monastery would have been built from the ransom of one of the Turkish prisoners of Paul Kinizsi. The goal of the founders was to make it their family burial ground. Kinizsi was indeed buried here (late 1494). His grave has been excavated, his tombstone can be seen in the chapel of the castle of Nagyvázsony. (The second husband of Benigna Kinizsiné Kanizsai, Márk Kamicházi Horváth, was also buried here in 1509) Of particular value are the surviving codices written in the Pauline monastery in Vázsony. (Festetich Code, Czech Code, Peer Code) The fate of the depopulated monastery in 1543 was marked by the fall of the castle of Veszprém into Turkish hands (1552), after which the Turks, together with the other nearby monasteries, were blown up in order to prevent the Turks from turning it into a fortress and threatening it. Its stones are partly in the castle of Vázsony 16-17. It was carried away for the construction of houses in the 18th century. The ruins of the monastery were preserved and minor additions were made in 1960.