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The Széchenyi Palace (3 Kiscenki út), remodelled in the 1840's, complete with gas lighting and bathrooms, was part of one of the family estates of Count István Széchenyi (1791-1860), an outstanding politician during the Age of Reform in Hungary and in the revolution and war of independence of 1848-1849. He built the Lánchíd ('Chain Bridge') in Budapest, the first permanent bridge over the Danube, founded the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and was a pioneer of steam shipping on the Danube and racehorse-breeding in Hungary. The István Széchenyi Memorial Museum details the varied career of the 'Greatest of Hungarians'. The Széchenyi Museum Railway runs to Fertőboz (B2), where the Classicist Gloriette gives an unparalleled view of Lake Fertő. In the Locomotive Museum steam engines as well as passenger carriages and freight and lumber wagons evoke the history of the narrow-gauge railway lines. A lane of 600 protected small-leafed linden trees, planted 250 years ago, leads from the palace to a small grove.
