Horváth M. Ferenc (szerk.): Vác The heart of the Danube Bend. A historical guide for residents and globetrotters (Vác, 2009)

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Before the Ottoman era Verőce had been a prosperous market town. In addition to the Hungarians, Slovaks and Germans settled here in the 18th century. The appearance of holiday makers at the end of the 19th century changed the image of the village with the row of terraced villas built between the main road and the Danube. Due to its favoured position the cultural life of the town got livelier, several famous writers like Endre Ady, Zsigmond Móricz, Dezső Kosztolányi, Frigyes Karinthy and the composer Zoltán Kodály spent their holidays in Verőce.

Gorka Museum and Pufi Castle

Kismaros

The renewed main square

Sights: Géza Gorka (1894-1971) Museum • Baroque Migazzi Mansion, today old people's home (1769) • Baroque Roman Catholic church (1743) • late Baroque Calvinist church (1785) • Svadló (Pufi) Mansion in private ownership • villas by the Danube • ruins of a fortification from the Roman Period Programme: excursion to Magyarkút

Migazzi Castle

After the Ottoman occupation the village was resettled by Germans.

Sights: the memorial of the so-called box of Ulm • row of wine cellars • village museum Programme: narrow-gauge railway running between Kismaros and Királyrét

Row of cellars