Monument to Count György Festetic

The monument to Count György Festetic is located in front of the palace of the Hungarian city of Kesthea. Thus, the Hungarian people thanked the count for his huge contribution to the agricultural engineering of the country. He gave the peasants knowledge of modern methods of cultivation, and in 1797 he organized the first European school on agriculture.

Count György Festetic was a rich man, loved luxury, but did not forget about the development of culture. So, he built a wing of the palace in the south-west side, set aside for a rich library. At the beginning of the XIX century, he twice arranged in his castle unprecedented literary holidays - "Helikon".