The Benedictine monastery, built in honour of St. Martin by Grand Prince Géza in 996, is entwined with the Hungarian and European history and culture of the last millennium. The buildings of the monastery preserve the messages of the different eras, yet their complex expresses unity in its diversity. The special historical objects and rich cultural heritage seen here are given a special beauty by the fact that they are still used by a living community of monks for their original purpose. The Archabbey, part of the World Heritage, has been proclaiming the motto of St. Benedict, the founder of the order, for more than a thousand years: “Ora et Labora! "Pray and work!" Pannonhalma is a place where the unity of the soul, the spirit and the body become a tangible reality.

The parts of the Abbey that can be visited include the basilica, the lower church, the cloister and the library. Strengthening for the soul!

The monks of the ancient times carefully cultivated and collected the plants needed for healing. By 1830, there were already about 80 species of trees and shrubs in the abbey's arboretum; its character as an English garden was developed by Fábián Szeder in the 1840s.

Today, there are hundreds of tree and shrub species in the area of the arboretum; some of them are special species and varieties that live only in a few places in the country. In addition to its protected botanical values, the area is also rich in songbirds.

In Pannonhalma, the monks have been engaged in medical activities since the earliest times. They made teas, baths, ointments and alcoholic tinctures from the plants grown in the herb garden; their recipes can be found in the old volumes preserved in the library to this day. The lavender plantations and the herb garden located in the embrace of the Herb House and the Lavender Distillery Workshop serve the survival and development of this century-old tradition.

Permanent programmes:

Lavender weeks: the last two weeks of June and the first two weeks of July

Herbal blessing: 15th August

The products made from herbs (wine vinegars, leaf teas, liqueurs, herbal tea blends, biscuits, handmade chocolates) can be purchased on site and even online.

The relationship between the Archabbey of Pannonhalma and wine, with longer or shorter interruptions, is now more than one thousand years old. Viticulture was started by the ancient Romans on the hillsides, and the Benedictine monks continued it from the foundation of the monastery in 996, always using the highest level of grape and wine culture of the time.

In the early 1900s, the size of the abbey estate might have been approx. 100 hectares in the immediate vicinity of Pannonhalma. The political and social rearrangement following World War II made it impossible to continue this centuries-old tradition, as both the vineyards and the wineries became state-owned. In the following decades, the monks living in Pannonhalma did not give up their dream to revive the traditions. In 2000, plans began to be outlined, and as a result, the Pannonhalma Abbey Winery was built on an area of 2,000 m2 with a storage capacity of 3,000 hectolitres, with the majority ownership of the Pannonhalma Archabbey and the minority ownership of MKB Bank Zrt. in 2003.

The grapes from the vineyards of the Pannonhalma Abbey Winery are processed in the new almost 2,000 square metre-sized cellar and wine house built at the foot of the monastery, located at the south-eastern foot of St. Martin's Hill. Here you can get an insight into the history of the Benedictine grape and wine culture, visit the new complex of buildings, see the technological processes of winemaking, and taste the deservedly famous and popular wines of the abbey. (One can visit the cellar without tasting the wine.)

For individual wine tasting in the summer, in good weather, visitors are awaited on the terrace of the winery, and they can buy bottled wines in its shop.