Sopron—fly at c. 10.00am from London Heathrow to Vienna—drive through the Austrian province of Burgenland, which was part of Hungary until 1919, and across the border to Sopron, one of the best preserved and most picturesque towns in Hungary—around a Fire Tower of mediaeval foundation and Baroque termination crowd dozens of ancient patrician houses, churches and synagogues—first of three nights in Győr.

Pápa, Sárvár, Sümeg—the spires and domes of the country town of Pápa can be seen from many miles away—once an important ecclesiastical and administrative centre, it has a splendid late-Baroque church and a magnificent Esterházy palace—episcopal patronage in the little town of Sümeg provided a beautiful 18th-century parish church with frescoes which are the masterpiece of Franz Anton Maulbertsch, the greatest of Austro-Hungarian Rococo painters—Sárvár has a pentagonal Renaissance fortress, with fine rooms of the 16th to 18th centuries—overnight Győr.

Eszterháza, Győr, Pannonhalma—Eszterháza (Fertőd) is the most magnificent of Hungarian country houses; built in the 1770s, Joseph Haydn worked here every summer for thirty years—Gy?r has a very lovely and extensive historic centre with buildings of many periods, including a Romanesque-cum-Baroque cathedral with a 15th-century golden reliquary—Pannonhalma is a major Benedictine abbey situated on a hill; bold Neo-Classical tower, church, library, art gallery.