Pannonhalma

Pannonhalma is a metropolis in western Hungary, in Gyor-Moson-Sopron county with approximately four,000 population. It is set 20 km from Gyor. Archduke Otto Habsburg's heart is kept at the Pannonhalma Archabbey, whilst his frame turned into laid on the Capuchin Crypt in the vintage Imperial capital of Vienna. The city, referred to as Gyorszentmarton until 1965, is dominated with the aid of its maximum famous landmarks: the thousand-year-antique Pannonhalma Archabbey and the Benedictine Secondary School, which can be situated above the village, on Szent Marton Hill.

The hill itself remains acknowledged by means of this ancient name and the call 'Pannonhalma' changed into brought as a part of the Hungarian language reforms in the 19th century. The association with Saint Martin derives from a belief that Martin of Tours was born right here, though others believe he was born in nearby Szombathely. There is a small statue inside the metropolis on the crossroads beneath the abbey which shows the saint as a Roman soldier, slicing his cloak in keeping with the legend associated with him. The wall behind that is a part of the authentic fortifications which have been built in 1569 due to incursions into Western Hungary by the Ottoman Turks.