Jeszenák Castle and English Park in Péli
Building, structure
The castle was built by Baron János Jeszenák between 1766 and 1769 in the Austrian Baroque style. The castle was later owned by the Draskovics Vay and Strasser families. During World War I, it was a military hospital, then burned down. After 1946, the castle housed a school and various institutions. In 1953, it was transformed and expanded, and a children's home was set up in it, and later it became a boys' education institute. In 1993, the Strassers of Győr regained the castle as part of the restitution, but they only furnished a few rooms for themselves, leaving the institute. Shortly afterwards, the castle was sold to the Turócszentmártoni Kastély company, which renovated it between 2006 and 2011 and created a luxury castle hotel with forty-one beds, furnished in art-deco and baroque style. ; According to the Slovak-language information board placed in the castle park, the castle's English park is the oldest of its kind in the former Upper Hungary. It was created at the same time as the castle was built, by transforming the floodplain forest of the Little Danube. The park originally covered 25 hectares, of which 19 hectares remain today.