Danube Bend
Danube Bend is a curve of the Danube in Hungary and gives its name to this entire region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Esztergom and Visegrád.
Esztergom
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Esztergom is a town in the Danube Bend region, on the right bank of the river Danube, that is, on the border between Slovakia and Hungary. The original capital of the Kingdom of Hungary, Esztergom preserves its sites of medieval significance.
Visegrád
Visegrád is a small castle town in the Danube Bend region. It is north of Budapest on the right bank of the Danube. Visegrád is famous for the remains of the Early Renaissance summer palace of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and the medieval citadel.
Vác
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Vác is a town in the Danube Bend region. It is located on the eastern bank of the Danube near the magnificent Danube bend. Though not visited nearly as much as either Szentendre or Visegrád it can be a pleasant and enjoyable stopover between the two.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Szentendre and Rétság.
Szentendre
Szentendre is a town in the Danube Bend region, on the right bank of the Danube, 19 km north of Budapest.
Rétság
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Rétság is a town in the Danube Bend region, 55 km north of Budapest, halfway between Vác and Balassagyarmat. The population is a bit over 2700 people.
Dunakeszi
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Dunakeszi a town of 44,000 people in the Danube Bend region, north of Budapest, common limit with Újpest on the left bank of the Danube. Nicknamed as "Gate of Danube Bend".
Szob
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Szob is a town in Pest county, Central Hungary, Hungary. It is just south and east of the Slovak border on the north bank of the Danube. Szob is on a major electrified rail connection from Bratislava and a major railway border crossing into Hungary.
Pilisvörösvár
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Pilisvörösvár is a town in the Danube Bend region. 18 km north-west of Budapest. There are over 12,000 residents. Solymár is a village next toward southwest one settlement with Pilisvörösvár. The population of this village over 9,000 people.
Pomáz
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Pomáz is a town in the Danube Bend region. It is on the HÉV line Budapest–Szentendre northwest from Budapest. Its neighbor towns are Budakalász, Csobánka and Szentendre. A popular place to start trips in the Pilis mountains.
Verőce
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Verőce is a village and commune in Pest County in Hungary. From 1976 to 1990 the village of Verőce was merged with the village of Kismaros, to create a new merged settlement called Verőcemaros.
Leányfalu
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Leányfalu is a riverside village in Pest county, in the Budapest metropolitan area. It is just north of Szentendre between the branch of the Little Danube and the spurs of the Visegrád Mountains.
Danube Bend
- Type: Locality
- Description: curve in the river Danube
- Categories: meander and region
- Location: Central Hungary, Hungary, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
47.7642° or 47° 45′ 51″ northLongitude of center
18.9336° or 18° 56′ 1″ eastElevation
395 metres (1,296 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 335716997OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityGeoNames ID
3053477Wikidata ID
Q573498
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In Other Languages
From Bosnian to Swedish—“Danube Bend” goes by many names.
- Bosnian: “Okuka Dunava”
- Chinese: “多瑙大彎”
- Czech: “Dunajské ohbí”
- Danish: “Donauknæet”
- Dutch: “Donauknie”
- Esperanto: “Danubokurbiĝo”
- French: “Coude du Danube”
- German: “Donauknie”
- Hebrew: “עיקול הדנובה”
- Hungarian: “Dunakanyar”
- Italian: “Ansa del Danubio”
- Japanese: “ドナウ大曲”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Donaukneet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Donausvingen”
- Norwegian: “Donaukneet”
- Polish: “Zakole Dunaju”
- Russian: “Дунайская излучина”
- Slovak: “Vyšehradská brána”
- Spanish: “Recodo del Danubio”
- Swedish: “Donaukröken”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Danube Bend”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.