HUNGARY

HUNGARY / MAGYARORSZÁG.

Lake Balaton and Tihany Peninsula.
Second stamp in a set of 4, issued on 24.06.1968.
Face value: 60 Hungarian filler.
Design: Légrády Sándor (1906-1987).
Printing: Offset Lithography.
Size: 40 x 31 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 2368.
- Michel No. 2418A.
- Philatelia Hungarica No. 2461.
- Scott No. 1909.
- StampWorld No. 2441.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2366.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1989.

The Balaton is a freshwater lake in the Transdanubian region of Hungary. It is the largest lake in Central Europe, and one of the region's foremost tourist destinations. The Zala River provides the largest inflow of water to the lake, and the canalized Sió is the only outflow. On the hill that forms the Tihany peninsula, on the north shore of the lake, is the town of the same name (1,369 inhabitants in 2015), in the center of which stands a Benedictine abbey founded in 1055 (rebuilt in the style Baroque in 1754) by King Andrew I of Hungary, who is buried in his crypt: the founding act contains the first words that are preserved in the Hungarian language.

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Thanks to Dragan Buškulić for his contribution (https://worldofstamp2.wordpress.com/).