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Balatonfüred
County Veszprém
Area 46,45 km²
Population  
  • 13 289
  • 286 /km²
Postal code 8230
Area code 87

Balatonfüred is a popular resort town in Hungary with a population of thirteen thousand, situated on the north shore of Lake Balaton. Hungary is subdivided administratively into 40 regions. ... Veszprém (in Slovak Vesprím) is the name of an administrative county (comitatus or megye) in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... Square kilometre ( U.S. spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Density (symbol: ρ - Greek: rho) is a measure of mass per unit of volume. ... A postal code is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail. ... A telephone numbering plan is a system that allows subscribers to make and receive telephone calls across long distances. ... Lake Balaton - Landsat satellite photo Lake Balaton (Hungarian Balaton; German Plattensee; Slovak Blatenské jazero, meaning approximately muddy lake, probable origin of the name), located in Hungary, is the largest lake of Central Europe with a surface area of 592 km². ...


Description

The town has two marinas, a string of carbonated mineral water springs, beautiful listed buildings from the middle of the 18th and the 19th centuries and fine restaurants. It has modern hotels and guest-houses to accommodate about fifty thousand visitors in the summer. Mineral water is water containing minerals or other dissolved substances that alter its taste or give it therapeutic value. ... Buckingham Palace, a Grade I listed building. ...

A view of the pier from the shore in Balatonfüred
A view of the pier from the shore in Balatonfüred

People come here to enjoy the mild micro-climate, beautiful scenery, famous local wine, and sailing and swimming facilities, as well as to revive the two-century-old tradition of socialising around spas, bathing and vacationing. The main events of the two-month-long summer holiday season include a ball for first-time visitors with a beauty contest and a wine-tasting festival, both in August. View of the peer File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... View of the peer File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Categories: Stub | Ecology ... Caliber: 12 gauge Action: Pump-action/gas-actuated Mass: 4. ... A beauty contest, or beauty pageant, is a competition between people, based largely, though not always entirely, on the beauty of their physical appearance. ...


Balatonfüred has a number of conference halls, a large clinic for heart patients, and a camping site on the lakeshore. It also has a number of wine cellars that sell white house wine in the vineyards on the hillside overlooking the town and the lake.


In winter the lake may freeze over for weeks so that skaters and ice boaters take over. There are several varieties of Skating : Ice skating Inline skating Roller skating Skateboarding This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... An Ice boat is a boat or purpose built framework similar in appearance to a sail boat but fitted with skis or runners and designed to run over ice. ...

Winter scene of the Tagore promenade in Balatonfüred
Winter scene of the Tagore promenade in Balatonfüred

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State Hospital for Cardiology in Balatonfüred

With its 429 beds the State Hospital for Cardiology in Balatonfüred boasts the largest cardiac-rehabilitation center in Hungary. The hospital is built on the lakeshore and is flanked by the Tagore promenade (see picture at right), named after the Nobel-laureate Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was treated here. Many other famous and ordinary patients come here to heal and recuperate year-round thanks to the carbonated springs and baths, which are one of the best-known healing agents in Balatonfüred. The Kossuth Spring and other springs near the hospital supply water containing free and bound carbon dioxide as well as iron, magnesium, potassium, hydrocarbonate, calcium, sodium, sulfur and other minerals. The temperature of the spring waters is 14 to 15 °C; they are collected into a large basin and conducted to the spa building. Then the carbonated water is warmed up to 32 to 34 °C and used for treatment. Rabindranath Tagore (in Rabindranath Thakur) (May 7, 1861 – August 7, 1941) (25 Baishakh, 1268 – 22 Srabon, 1348, in the Bangla Calendar), also called Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo philosopher and nationalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913, becoming the first Asian to be awarded a... Carbon dioxide is an atmospheric gas composed of one carbon and two oxygen atoms. ... General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metal Group, Period, Block 8 (VIIIB), 4, d Density, Hardness 7874 kg/m3, 4. ... General Name, Symbol, Number magnesium, Mg, 12 Series alkaline earth metals Group, Period, Block 2 (IIA), 3, s Density, Hardness 1738 kg/m³, 2. ... General Name, Symbol, Number potassium, K, 19 Series alkali metals Group, Period, Block 1(IA), 4, s Density, Hardness 856 kg/m3, 0. ... Bicarbonate is a polyatomic ion whose formula is HCO3-. It is the intermediate form in the deprotonation of carbonic acid: removing the first proton from carbonic acid forms bicarbonate; removing the second proton leads to the carbonate ion. ... General Name, Symbol, Number calcium, Ca, 20 Series alkaline earth metal Group, Period, Block 2 (IIA), 4, s Density, Hardness 1550 kg/m3, 1. ... General Name, Symbol, Number sodium, Na, 11 Series alkali metal Group, Period, Block 1 (IA), 3, s Density, Hardness 968 kg/m3, 0. ... General Name, Symbol, Number sulfur, S, 16 Chemical series nonmetals Group, Period, Block 16 (VIA), 3, p Density, Hardness 1960 kg/m3, 2 Appearance Lemon yellow at STP Atomic properties Atomic weight 32. ...


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