Somló Stellplatz

Wine buffs can go tasting (and most likely buying, face it) at Somló wine estates including Bogdán (five minutes’ drive), Csordás-Fodor and the organic winery Kreinbacher. You can also tour the vines and cellars at Somló Abbey (all 10 minutes), where wine production first began several hundred years ago. Somló Castle (10 minutes) peers over the surrounding countryside from its hilltop perch, and is open for rambles around the photogenic ruins of its 13th-century tower and ramparts. Walk up there in half an hour from the Somló Hill car park and you’ll be rewarded by far-reaching views over the surrounding vineyards. Other historic buildings to check out include St Margit Chapel (10 minutes), a church much remodelled down the centuries, now with a Baroque facade and a revered centuries-old linden tree in the churchyard. Close by is miniscule St Ilona Chapel (five minutes), accessible only on foot and topped with a gleaming gold-tiled tower.