Overview
Sopron (pronounced "shop-ron"; German: Ödenburg, Croatian: Šopron, Latin: Scarbantia) is a city in Hungary, close to the Austrian border, with a population of about 62,000 (2017). The town is officially bilingual, and its historical German language name is Ödenburg.
Understand
When this area was the Pannonia Superior province of the Roman Empire, the city's name was Scarbantia. Its main square was then the forum. During the period of mass migration the once prosperous Scarbantia declined to become a lifeless city of ruins; a new settlement was created here only after the Hungarians took over the territory. Hungarians strengthened the old Roman city walls and built a castle. The town was named in Hungarian after a castle steward named Suprun. In 1273 King Otakar II of Bohemia occupied the castle. Even though he took the children of Sopron's nobility with him as hostages, the city opened its gates when the armies of King Ladislaus IV of Hungary arrived. The king rewarded Sopron by elevating it to the rank of free royal town. In 1529 the Turks devastated the city, but it did not fall under Turkish domination. Many Hungarians fled from the occupied areas to Sopron, and the city's importance grew.
While the Ottomans occupied most of central Europe, the region north of lake Balaton remained in the Kingdom of Hungary (1538–1867). In 1676 Sopron was destroyed by a fire. The modern-day city was born in the next few decades, when Baroque buildings were built to replace the destroyed medieval ones. Sopron became the seat of the comitatus Sopron. Until 1918, the town (bilingual names Oedenburg - Sopron) was part of the Austrian monarchy, province of Hungary; in Transleithania after the compromise of 1867 in the Kingdom of Hungary. Following the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, after local unrest, Sopron's status as part of Hungary (along with that of the surrounding eight villages) was decided by a controversial, local plebiscite held on December 14, 1921, with 65% voting for Hungary. Since then Sopron has been called Civitas Fidelissima ("The Most Loyal Town"), and the anniversary of the plebiscite is a city holiday. Sopron suffered greatly during World War II and it was bombed several times. The Soviet Red Army captured the city on April 1, 1945. On August 19, 1989 the "Pan-European Picnic" took place near Sopron, when the "Iron Curtain" between Austria and Hungary was lifted for a few hours, allowing some hundred East German citizens to cross the border.
After being suppressed during the Cold War, Sopron's German-speaking culture and heritage are now recognized again. As a consequence, many of the city's street-and traffic-signs are written in both Hungarian and German making it an officially bilingual city due to its proximity to the Austrian frontier.
Get in
By plane Nearest international airports are Vienna (65 km) and Bratislava (100 km).
By car From Vienna, Austria on A2 until the Traiskirchen intersection, then on A3 until the Eisenstadt intersection, and on B16 to Sopron.
By bus , to Budapest no direct bus (first you must to go Székesfehérvár or Veszprém or with a longer detour to Hévíz or Szombathely 5-7 hours, train is much better).
By train Sopron is located within the Vienna regional tariff union, so if you have a ticket or travelcard covering the entire network, you can use it to travel to Sopron (but not other Hungarian towns served by suburban trains).
Domestic Győr–Sopron–Ebenfurth Railway. service area information
Get around
The city isn't large, so you can walk or buy a ticket to ride the public bus lines. Prices (2014). Tickets: Ft 320 in advance, from driver Ft 390. Passes: Ft 6900 per month, Ft 4,300 semimonthly, Ft 2250 per seven-day, Ft 780 per a daily ticket. Local season ticket and single tickets can buy at Volan Tourist Travel Agency (address: Lackner Kristóf utca) or without queuing, 24/7, from a ticket vending machine, (located in the city ten points.)
Sopron parking based on three zones. Parking map here. Paying with cash, chipcard or mobile. City center closed for cars (except with special permisson). Sopron taxis list here.
Getting around the city centre by bike.
See
Downtown street by street Main Square
Firewatch Tower. Landmark of the city is the "fire tower", with a museum of history of the city. 61 m high, there is a wonderful panoramic view from the top. Its cylindrical lower part was built on the remains of the Roman town wall, and served as the north tower of the city from the 13th century onwards. Also on top of the tower is a double-headed eagle, that was a gift from King Ferdinánd II and Queen Eleonóra for the parliamentary session and queen's coronation, both held in Sopron in 1622.
City Hall. The eclectic style building in the year of the millennium (1989) was completed by Hinträger Móric és Károly plans. On the barock main square. Also in December there is a Christmas market on the square (must see!) Richly decorated (applied arts) interior design and furnishings. Protected Monument.
Storno House museum. A Baroque corner house with Renaissance elements. The building are the closed, round, two-storey corner balcony with its rich ornamentation, the basket-arched gate with the Festetics family’s coat of arms between the two Tuscan half pillars, and the door knockers with their pelican motifs. Here is the Local History Exhibition. The authentic documents and relics collected since 1867
Gate of Faith. This was made in memory of the referendum of 1921. In this referendum Sopron and eight neighbouring villages expressed their wish to remain part of Hungary.
Kossow-House. Rebuilt in the Baroque era, then established a large residential lobby in the floor above the doorway. Now there is a wine bar
Fabricius-House. From the 14th century with interior from the 17th and 18th centuries. The Gothic hall is a wonderful piece of architecture, but the two story loggia with open staircase in the courtyard and the Gothic and Baroque cellars of the rear building also deserve special attention. The owners of the building were always rich citizens and traders with high ranking social positions. The house is named after one of the owners, mayor and magistrate Endre Fabricius, who purchased the house in 1806. There is a medieval cellar hall with a Roman Lapidary. Here is the former Roman Capitol decorating Trias sculpture group. Three exhibits: Roman Lapidary, "Three thousand years along the Amber Road" archaeological exhibition and 17th and 18th. century bourgeois interior furnishing. Protected Monument
Pharmacy Museum. Built in 15th–16th centuries. The former Angel Pharmacy operated in this house from the middle of the 17th century. Reconstructed in 1850, when the Gensel family extended the house by bricking up the arcades and the corridor. The house was pronounced the first national monument in Hungary by Louis II of Hungary in 1525. Protected Monument
Gambrinus - House. Protected monument. Gothic origin. It was expanded in the late Renaissance style, the facade made in Baroque style. The interior rebuilt in the 18th century. There are frescoes from the 18th century in the rooms upstairs. Protected Monument
Former County Hall. Built in 1896. Protected Monument
Holy Trinity Column. One of the best-known attractions of the square. A masterpiece of the Hungarian Baroque (1701). Protected Monument
General and Lackner House. Here was the residence of the mayor dr. Lackner Kristóf (1571-1631). Protected Monument
St. Jude Thaddeus Dominican Church and the former Dominican Monastery. Baroque church with two towers built between 1719 and 1725, it is still without a tower, they only later, in the 1740s raised. The Dominican Monastery is now a school, built in Baroque, 1745-1750. The dining room decorated with whitewashed frescoes and richly curved wooden panelling, Baroque, around 1750.
Former Széchényi Mansion. Dwelling house, former Széchenyi Palace, the 18th century origin, Classicist style, rebuilt in 1827-1851. Count Ferenc Széchenyi held in here his valuable medal, book and map collection.
Post Palace. Outstanding masterpiece of the Hungarian Art Nouveau. Carved in stone, above the main entrance, the Hungarian decorative coat of arms. Remained in the Art Nouveau style furniture too. Protected Monument. Architects: Ambrus Orth & Emil Somló, 1913
Decorative garden with Széchényi Monument. Full figure bronze statue. It was made by Matra Lajos, in 1896.
Liszt Ferenc Cultural Centre. Former Casino. A five-storey building with conference, theater, dance, concerts, session and exhibition halls. The piano virtuoso, composer, conductor and teacher Franz Liszt was born in Doborján (Raiding), in former Sopron County. The house where he was born is a memorial museum today. Today the new Conference and Cultural Centre, a choir, and the town's symphony orchestra bear the name of the Maestro. One of the most beautiful buildings in the city centre.
Dwelling houses on Széchenyi square. Protected Monuments #5 (Classicist, 1855-1861. Modified 1879), #14 (early romantic, 1849), #17-18. (Romantic, circa 1860), #19 (Romantic 1856 Designed by Handler Nándor), #20 (Romantic, 1855)
Berzsenyi Lutheran High School. Protected Monument. Classicist, 1825. Modified in eclectic style in 1894.
Győr–Sopron–Ebenfurt Railways Headquarters. A monument building.
Old Synagogue. Built at end of 13th century in Gothic style. This is a unique piece of Jewish architecture in Eastern Europe. A corridor from the entrance leads to the main hall. Its main door is decorated with a tympanum, and two side consoles date from 1300, the time of construction. The two focal points of the synagogue are the Aaron alcove and the pulpit. There is a collection of Jewish religion and customs.
Synagogue. A dwelling house with medieval details. Built in Baroque style, 18th century. The courtyard wing of the house is a synagogue, now a museum, Built in Gothic, circa 1350. Modified in the second half of the 15th century.
Civic Apartment houses. #4 (Baroque, 1710th Modified in the middle of the 19th century. Now office), #5 (18th-century origin. Received its present form in 1841), #7 (details of medieval, mostly Baroque style, 18th century), #9 (Gothic style, 15th century. Modified in Renaissance and Baroque styles in the 17-18th centuries. Upstairs room decorated with stucco ornaments, Baroque, first half of the 18th century.), #13 (medieval, baroque, 18th century), #15 (medieval, Baroque, second half of 17th century), #17 (Baroque, about 1720), #18 (medieval baroque origin 1748. Upstairs areas with frescoes, baroque, 1770-1780), #19 (Baroque, late 17th century), #20 (Baroque, 18th century), #21(medieval, late Renaissance , around 1650. Two first-floor rooms with carved beam ceilings, made in the mid 17th century), #24 (medieval, baroque, 18th century), #26 (details of medieval age, baroque 18th century — its Romantic facade made in circa 1860), #28. (medieval, baroque, 18th century, partly modified).
Chapter Hall. Public Exhibition Room. Gothic origins at the end of the 13th century, renovated in the beginning of the 14-15th centuries. Ornamental and figurative painting remains, from the 14th century
Mining Museum in Palais Esterhazy. Baroque building. This is the largest and most comprehensive mining collection] of Hungary. The most interesting part of the exhibition is a life-size mineshaFt from the beginning of the 20th century. This museum offering an unforgettable experience to Hungarian and foreign tourists, with signs in German, English and Slovakian.
Bezerédj house. A baroque building based on medieval foundations, was built around 1710. One of the most beautiful rococo palaces in Sopron.
Forestry Collection. Multi-million-year old fossilized fragments of silicified trees, map from 1656, documents from the late 1800s, insect collections made in 1870, wooden household and user devices from the last century, machine models, maquettes.
Great Lutheran Church. 1783. Evangelic Collection. The third largest Lutheran church in Hungary. A hall church, which was divided into three vessels with eight huge Tuscan columns. The middle nave is wider and higher than the side aisles. A two-level choir built over the side of the naves.
Goat Catholic Church. The city's main Roman Catholic church also provided a venue for coronations and parliamentary sessions. Main sights are the frescoes, the lancet windows, and the unique Capistran pulpit.
Former Benedictine convent and the Chapter House. A late Baroque door on the south side of leads to the Chapter House. There are unveiled Gothic pillars, beautifully crafted corbels and parts of medieval frescos. The distorted animal figures below brackets symbolize the medieval seven deadly sins: crouching monkey (arrogance), shrimp (inconstancy) winged devil or griffin - Infidelity, sleeping man and bat (sloth), animal-bodied man and woman (lust), female legs and hoofed creature grinning monster bent (envy) and bear (gluttony). The keystone represents: angel with trumpet (Last Judgment), pelican with blood feeding its sons (Christ), Eagle with sentence ribbon (St. John the Evangelist), angel figurine with sentence ribbon (St. Matthew the Evangelist), winged lion (St. Mark the Evangelist), winged ox (St. Luke the Evangelist).
Former Priests House. Baroque, 17th-century origins, its present form was built in the 1710s.
Houses in Baroque style. #5 (medieval origin, Baroque and 18th century. One upstairs room 'kváder' pavement and painted interior room, 15th century), #6 (medieval base. Baroque rebuilding around 1710. Courtyard wings rebuilt in the late Classical style in 1850), #7 (built on medieval foundations. mostly Baroque elements; in the 16-19th centuries rebuilt several times.), #9 (Gothic, 14-15th centuries. Modified from the 16th and 18th centuries and in the second half of the 19th century), #11 ( late Renaissance elements. Medieval foundations, 1650s), # 12 (Medieval details. Baroque, 1767th), #13 (Medieval details, Baroque, 18th century), #14 (Gothic, 15th century. Modified in late Renaissance style in the 1680s), #15 (Baroque, 1782), #16 (medieval origin, Baroque, 18. Modified 1837), #17 (Baroque, 17th century, in the form of origin, today was built in the 1710s), #18 (Baroque, 1723), #19 (Baroque, early 18th century), #20 (Baroque 1720s. Modified neoclassical style in the 1830s), #21 (Baroque origin, rebuilt in eclectic style around 1870), #22 (Baroque, around 1720. Current facade received in 1876, eclectic style), #25 (Romantic style, 1860.), #27 (Romantic, around 1870.)
Lutheran Church Collection. Former Priests Residence. More in Hungarian
Széchenyi István High School. Monument. Romantic style, 1858
Green House. Cultural heritage monument. Eclectic, 1872
Baroque House. Protected monument. Baroque, 1723
Töpler House. Two-storey baroque building. Substantially reconstructed in the second half of the 19th century.
Kolostor street's palaces. East side of the street are decorated town houses and noble palaces. #1, 3, 5, 7, 9
Former Zichy-Meskó Palace. Two-storey enclosed balcony. Arched doorways leading into the courtyard. Staircase with beautiful wrought iron gates and with baroque stone sculptures. The female figures placed in niches could be made around 1770. There are allegorical sculptures of Luck, Force, Truth and Science (1725). Ceremonial Hall with baroque ceiling paintings from the 18th century. Receiving Room with the two Panno figures, around 1740, Van Roy works. Here is also some nice wood panelling made in the mid-18th century.)
Monument Mansions. #1 (Gothic, Baroque, built in 1776. Richly decorated stucco ceiling (on the second floor), first half of 18th century), #3 (medieval details, late Baroque, 18th century), #5 (with Gothic and Renaissance details mainly Baroque, 17-18th centuries. The facade: Late Gothic and late Renaissance painting remains of 16th century. Doors and windows: mostly made in 18th century, with baroque fittings), #7 (Gothic origin, 14-15 centuries. Rebuilt in neoclassical style in the first half of the 19th century. Interiors with 'kváder' room painting from the 15th century), #9 (Gothic, baroque, mid-18th century), #13 (medieval, renaissance late, 1628. Now there are offices.)
Former Ursuline Church and convent. Roman Catholic. Romantic style with neo-gothic markings (1864). One of the most impressive architectural monuments of the past century. Replaced the former small convent church of the Holy Cross (1770s). Full romantically decorated, made around 1860. Sacristy cabinet, made around 1780. Baroque sculptures, made around 1740. The Ursuline convent was built using two baroque buildings, Romantic style in 1864. Designer: Ferdinand Handler. Now it is a grade school.
Mary's Well. 18th century. Maria Immaculata sculpture staying on an indoor pool imitating base.
Legged-House. Built around 1570, the ground floor has ever lined butcher. Temporary exhibitions.
Caesar-House. A corner house. Baroque building with late Renaissance details, built in the 17th and 18th centuries. The second-floor hall made around 1700, early baroque, ornamental stucco ceiling. József Horváth Painter Memorial Exhibition.
Medieval shop window and door on a building.
Church of St. George. Built between 1380-1430 as a Gothic church with single nave. The arched nave closures decorated with stucco. Both sides are chapels. It has got a lively, Italianate facade of the 18th century. The eclectic tower was built in 1882. Next to the sanctuary in the baptisms chapel is some medieval fresco fragment. Furniture of 18th century. The stucco ornaments made between 1705-1706 and its Pietro Antonio Conti's work.
Eggenberg House. 17th century, late Renaissance building. There is the Branderburg coat of arms, over the gate, and the Hohenzollern coat of arms, in courtyard with balcony, can be seen.
Forum of Scarbantia, Iron House. Scarbantia (the Roman name of Sopron) was one of the border stations of the Province of Pannonia in the former Roman Empire. It was a part of the Amber Road, an important commercial route. The center of the Roman City was the Forum. Built of 'Lajta' limestone delivered here from the Fertőrákos (around 10 km away) quarry. During the excavations between 1960 and 1970 the pedestals of three bronze equestrian statues were found on the southern part of the square. Altars to different gods were discovered on the sides of the Forum. The temples of the three main gods – Jupiter, Juno and Minerva - were situated at the highest point of the town.
Szent György street monument houses. Dwelling houses: #8 (Medieval origin, rebuilt in Baroque, 18th century. Partly converted into the romantic style in the second half of the 19th century), #10 (Baroque, 18th century. Highly modified), #15 (Medieval origin, baroque, 17th century), #19 (Baroque, 18th century), #22 (Gothic, late Renaissance, 1648. There is on the first and second floors one-one 17th-century carved wood-beamed room.), #24 (Romantic, 1860). Other buildings: #1 Neugebäude, #5 Provost House, #7: Chapter House, #9 was a Benedictine high school, now the School of Forestry, #11th Lenk gateway, #14 Lutheran house of Convention (Gothic 15th century. Modified in Baroque style in the 18th century), #16 Former Erdődy Palace (Baroque, around 1740).
Lenck Passage. On the facade the "Amazing fishing" relief and the Lenck family signboard can be see. The Szent György street connects with the Várkerület via Lenck Passage.
Former Chapter House. A magnificent two-story late-Renaissance palace erected around 1650. Health Training Institute.
Former Boarding school. Medieval origin, rebuilt in Baroque in the 17th century. Modified in the 18th and 19th centuries. Now Forestry secondary school.)
Former Jesuit konviktus; dwelling house. Late Renaissance, 1644. The second floor was built around 1680.
Loyalty Fountain. The fountain of three full-length bronze statues symbolize the city's history main events.
Mary's column.. Baroque, 1745. The reliefs depict scenes from the life of Mary (Annunciation, Mary and Elizabeth meeting, Adoration of the Shepherds, Presentation of Jesus in the Temple).
Pannónia Gallery. Monthly a new exhibition can be seen in the gallery. Services: café, buffet, toilet/WC, cloak-room
Castle of Sopron remains. Roman walls remains can be seen here several metrers above the ground (concrete shell protected against the weather). City walls: The town core was surrounding with triple protection ring now only the outer ring wall sections remained. The most impressive part of the Barbican or The large Round Bastion. The large Round Bastion, in the castle district doubles side part of Sopron inner walls. Here, the closed row of houses is broken and a fairly long section of the city walls can be seen. Photos
Rejpal House. Museum. Medieval details. Renaissance, around 1560. Expanded in the 1790s. The ceilings of the second floor painted, carved, wood-beamed also there is some decorative wall painting, 16th century. The two-level dwelling house medieval predecessor was raised Roman building remains. Its present shape formed in the second half of the 16th century Renaissance style, although significant medieval details - such as the Gothic staircase - is preserved. Yard wings expanded the 16th and 17th centuries. At one time it was owned by tradesmen (blacksmiths, butchers, confectioners). In front of the house is the statue of the painter Jozef Horvath.
Rococo building. Two-storey rococo building received its present form in 1750-60. On the right side a cross-vaulted doorway give direct access to the courtyard. The upstairs living room decorated with stucco. In another room there is a Renaissance wooden ceiling.
Dwelling House with eclectic facade. Baroque, 18th century. Interiors of carved wood-beamed ceilings.
Dwelling House. Medieval foundations. Rebuilt in Rococo style, in 1757. At the right wing of the building is a Renaissance door frame in the wall, 16th century.
Dwelling house. Classicist, eclectic styles, 1868.
Arany Angyal Inn. It was the Golden Angel Inn. Baroque style around 1800. Modified in the second half of the 19th century.
Former Fehérló Inn. It was the White Horse Inn Medieval origin. Then baroque reconstruction, 18. Classicist transformation.
Dwelling houses. #2 (Baroque, 1770), #5 (Baroque, 18th century), #8 (Baroque, 18th century), #9 (Baroque 1750s. Upstairs great room with rich stucco ceilings, 18th century), #10 (eclectic, romantic, 1851. There is wooden ceiling of the 18th century), #11 (Baroque, 18th century, the facade is eclectic: carved beamed wood ceilings, 18th century), #13 (Rococo, circa 1750), #15 (Eclectic, 1870s. The courtyard wing made in Baroque style, 18th century), #17 (Rococo , circa 1750), #19 (Medieval foundations. Rebuilt in rococo, 1757. Renaissance door frame, 16 century.), #20 (current form got with an additional floors in 1846), #21 (17th century origin. Rebuilt in Baroque in the 1780s. Facade is eclectic, 1881. Modified in 1885.), #22 (late Baroque, around 1800. Partly modified), #23 (late Romantic, circa 1870), #24 (early Classicist, circa 1800), #25 (baroque, 1733-1735. There is a Maria Immaculata fresco in upstairs loggia, circa 1750. Repainted Storno Kalman, 1925), #27 (baroque, 18th-century origin. transformed into the romantic style. The facade made in around 1870), #29 (Baroque, circa 1720.), #30 (romantic, circa 1860), #31 (Baroque, 17th century. Current facade added around 1730), #33 (late Classical and early eclectic, mid 19th century.), #35 (late Classical, middle 19th century), #37 (now Post Office, built in Baroque, 18th century. Rebuilt in eclectic style in 1896), #39 (Baroque, 18th century), #43 (Baroque, 18th century origin. Modified), #47 (Baroque, 18th century origin. Modified), #49 (Romantic style, around 1850), #53 (Baroque, 18th century origin. Substantially rebuilt), #54 (eclectic, 1885), #56 (romantic, 1861), # 57 (Rococo, circa 1750), #62 (Romantic, 1862. Rebuilt in 1883.), #63 (Baroque, 18th century. Modified in the 19 century), #65 (Eclectic, 1883), #70 (Classicist, 1815. - Designed by Jakab Handler), #72 (Romantic, 1862 - Second floor finished in 1883), #74 (Romantic, 1859), #77 (Classicist and eclectic details, 1868), #79 (late Classical, circa 1840), #85 (Romantic style, circa 1860), #88 (Classicist, 1814-1816), #92 (late Baroque, circa 1800. Partly modified, rear wing facade decorated with a St John of Nepomuk Statue from 1790s), #94 (early Eclectic, around 1870), #104 (Baroque, around 1770. Modified and expanded with second floor in the second half of the 19th century), #106 (romantic, 1860), #108 (Romantic, circa 1860), #110 (Classicist, 1814 Built by Handler Jakab).
Formerly Hungarian King restaurants. Classicist origin. Transforming in the second half of the 19th century. Now school and dormitory.
Dwelling houses. #3 (baroque, 1768. Modified 1837), #5 (Baroque, early 1770. The eclectic facade, made in the second half of the 19th century), #7 (Copf style, 1784-1794), #9 (late Baroque, 1770), #11 (Baroque, built in 1770, is replaced by a 16th-century castle part).
Dwelling houses. # 1 (now General School, a former residential building, Baroque, around 1760.) #2-2A here was the former Town Armory in the 16-19th Centuries. (Medieval renaissance details. Rebuilt romantic style of the second half of the 19th century. In the cellar of the #2 /A house some Roman (Amber Road) pavement remains. In the courtyard is a relief made in Classicist style, circa 1815), #3 (early Baroque facade, circa 1710. Rebuilt in 1959. )
Dwelling houses. #1 (late Classical, 1823-1825. Designed by Hasenauer Martin), #2 (Apartment building, galleries and restaurants. There are late-medieval and Renaissance Baroque details. There are two rooms with ornamental stucco ceiling on the second floor, made in early Baroque, around 1700), #3 (former pharmacy house, Baroque, 1773), #6 (built in late Classicist, circa 1840), #8 (late Classicist, circa 1840).
Former Röttig-Romwalter printing house.
Former Evangelical Theology Building. Built in 1931, designed by Sandy Gyula.
Lenk Villa - Franz Liszt Museum. The Lenk merchant family erected in 1890, eclectic style by architect Otto Hofer. In front of the main entrance are two stone statues: symbolic representations of the truth. The main entrance decorated with columns and a tympanum. A park situated around the museum. In the park can be seen rare plants, Baroque sculptures and old tombs from the Lutheran cemetery, also here is the 'Baker cross' dating from 1484.
Town house with highground floor. A monument.
One-storey urban civil house. Neo-Renaissance.
Two storey Dwelling House. Copf, circa 1790.
Resting Cross. Open Air Monument. The tabernacle 17th century.
Zettl-Langer collection. A local history collection. More in Hungarian
Lutheran cemetery. Opened in 1886. There is Greek-style mortuary (around 1900). A domed mortuary built in Art Nouveau style in 1905. On the western part can be see the Lenk family mausoleum (1887).
Ikva Bridge. Contrary to the name this is not a bridge, but a street. The Ikva is a stream. There are two bridges. The western made in 1828 and its name is Ispotály (Hospital) bridge. The eastern bridge built in Middle Ages. Later the houses and the road were built onto the two bridge.
Former Army Officer's Girls boarding school.
Dwelling houses. #5 (early historical), #6 (one storey), #10 (late classicist, 1850.), #12 (romantic, circa 1860), # 29 (early classicist, 1815. Designed by Jakab Handler), #47 (neoclassical, 1815. Designed by Jakab Handler), #49 (romantic, circa 1860), #51 (romantic, circa 1860).
Dwelling house. #1 (A 16th-century house. Built over Roman ruins. Today Baroque facade emerged around 1750. The walls are large buttresses strengthen against the flooding stream Ikva.), #3 (baroque, 18th century), #4 (Baroque, 1760), #5 (Former Nap /Sun/ Inn. Built in baroque, 1726. Later partially modified.), #6 (Gothic, Baroque, early 18th century), #10 (Baroque, 18th century), #12 (Baroque, No. 18. Adapted floor and extended in the 20th century), #13 (Baroque, late 17th century), #16 (Baroque, 17. partly transformed in the 20th century.)
Amphitheater. A Roman ruin garden with 3.5 meter wide Roman city walls. Later here was the rampart of the 'ispán' castle (11th century) - an Árpád-era fortress, (Latin: Castrum Suprun). Historical Garden. More
Baker House Museum. From 1686 to 1970, the owners of the house were bakers. After that, the City Council decided to open an exhibition in the building, keeping the entire interior untouched. More in Hungarian.
St. John the Baptist Church. rigin of 13th century, Gothic, late 15th century. Vault 1519-1521, radically restored in 1890, based jr. Franz Storno plans. There are murals and inscriptions from 1519, located at gallery of organ.
Holy Spirit Parish Church. Roman Catholic. Built in the 14th century, late Gothic church. (Construction of the end of the 1300s probable) Interior space was rebuilt in Baroque style in the 18th century.
József Horváth Art School. Built in 2003 with the reconstruction and extension of a 17th-century Jesuit monastery.
Dwelling house. Baroque, 17th-18th centuries. Modified.
St. Michael Church with tower. Gothic, Built in the second half of 13th century and beginning of the 14th century. Modified in the 15th-16th centuries and between 1859-1866. Paintings and fragments (15th century) are renewed. One of the main sight is the wooden Madonna statue, circa 1460-1470.
St. James Chapel and the old cemetery. Monument.
"Two Moors" House. 18th century, baroque. The most beautiful farmer house of which is ornate Baroque gate kept twisted columns decorated with "Moorish" servants.
Saint Margaret of the Árpád dynasty (Juliáneum) Church. Founded by Cardinal Vilmos Apor. A chapel and a parish constructed in 1945 used a house (from 1910). More in Hungarian
Ligneum Visitor Center. Ecotourism Visitor and Education Center, art museum, exhibition hall, art collection.
Károly Lookout Tower. There is an exhibition hall. The 23-m-high lookout tower, made of quarry-stone, there is a highly interesting exhibition introducing the activity of three natural scientists of European fame - Pál Kitaibel, Endre Gombocz and Zoltán Kárpáti - as well as the main characteristics of the Sopron Nature Conservation Area. - Services: café, buffet, toilet/WC.
Taródi Castle. István Taródi built the castle by himself. He started the building operations in 1945, when he was 20. Castle floor area 4000 m². Built after the sample of the medieval knights castles. Castle parts: a drawbridge over a 3-meter deep moat, a 16-m-high and 10 m in diameter, 50-cm-thick gate tower with panoramic view, bath house, garden, fountain (3 meters in diameter and 15 meters deep), secret tunnel (10 m long, 70 cm wide and 150 cm tall).
Sörházdomb (Beerhouse Hill) Lookout. The Beer House Hill a 300-m-high mountain ridge. Here is the youngest, wooden observation tower of Lövérek.
Várhely (Castle space) Lookout. Near to the remains of the earthwork of Várhely. There is a panoramic view toward: - NE: Sopront, Sopron-Bánfalvát, Vienna Hill, Fertő Lake and the Moson Flatland; - East: the Hanság; - South: the peaks of Sopron-mountain and Rozália mountain; - West: Ágfalva and Lépesfalva villages, Castle Fraknó and Schneeberg Mt. (Austria); - North Ruszti Hills, a Lajta Mtn. and the Small Carpathian range.
Elizabeth Gardens. The area purchased by the city in 1763. A French public park built as Neuhof (German: New Yard). Expanded in 1900 with the Vághy's garden. One of the oldest Hungarian garden which everyone could freely visit.
St. John of Nepomuk Chapel. Rococo, 1764
Villas. In the so called Lower-Lővérek quarter. Twin Villas with elevated first floor made in 1890s. Also secession styled houses with richly decorated porch and garden. The gardens are well cared and there are huge trees. The buildings are in good condition, well maintained, but very badly can be photographed - Listed Villas: #2 Wallner Ignác House (Dr. Wallner Ignác (1847-1929) was the Director of the Main Real School of Sopron, between 1897-1914.), #6 (cozy), #14 (Like the other houses this was built behind decorative fence, large front garden.), #18 , #20 , #22 Winkler Oszkár House (Winkler Oszkár was the dean of the Faculty Of Mining, Metallurgy, Forestry,- a local branch of the Budapest University of Technology ), #24 (wooden porch with enclosed balcony), #26, #28 (almost invisible from the street), #30 (Cosy and perfect). - The #6, 24, 30 are the nicest of them.
TV tower of Sopron. built in 1968–1970, architect Sándor Kovács (Postai Tervező Iroda – POTI).
University of West Hungary. Built in 1943, architect Oszkár Winkler.
Muck Lookout Tower. Built in 1906, architect Schiller Ferenc.
Mining Memorial House. A technical/industrial museum. Brennbergbánya was one of the largest Hungarian coal mining colony more than 200 years ago. The museum is in the first steam engine supplier shaft engine room (1840). The exhibition shows the mine creation, development, the supplies of miner life and a part of a miner's flat.
St. Emeric Church. Roman Catholic. Modern style. Built in 1993-97. Planned by Balázs Mihály & Fejérdy Péter
St. Stephen Church. Roman Catholic. Its construction began in 1940. First, the tower is built. The reinforced concrete church Early Christian Basilica, the Colosseum and the use of architectural elements The walls are decorated with frescoes by the painter Sterbenz Károly - The image of Black Madonna of Czestochowa, the Polish prisoners of war gift
Maria - Magdolna church. Built in the 12th century, stone, in the Romanesque and early Gothic style. A monument with beautiful wall paintings. To the left in one of the windows was the sanctuary lamp, at right was the place to the Blessed Sacrament. The Archbishop fresco, around 1200, one of the most valuable Romanesque frescoes in Hungary. The mural in the vessel of the nave made in the early 15th century, Italian school. One section depicts the arrival of the three kings, and the congregation of the apostles. Outside of the shrine is a fresco fragment about Christ's head. - Farewell: jul.22
Chapel of the St Michael's cemetery. Neogothic.
The College, former Courthouse Building. A monument local level protection.
Medieval building. Reconstructed in 1970-73.
Former windmill on the Kuruc Hill. Former Szélmalom Restaurant.
Pan-European Picnic Memorial Place. This is a memorial site, an open-air museum. The Pan-European Picnic at the Austrian-Hungarian border, held on August 19, 1989, was a peace demonstration that was an important antecedent of the fall of the Iron Curtain and the European Union's eastern enlargement.
Fertőrákos. Highlights: open-air museum of the beautiful stone quarry, and the Fertőrákos mithraeum (Mithras Sanctuary).
Harka. St. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church (1309), Lutheran Church (1787), Millennium Monument (1896), War Memorial (1923), Local History Exhibition, Istenszéke summit with the remains of an earthwork (7th century BC). To stay: two guesthouses 7 rooms and 28 beds.
Do
Buy some bottles of the famous Hungarian wine "Kékfrankos" Take a walk in the forest around the city. Drink a coffee in the café at Széchényi Tér with a view on the beautiful Liszt Ferenc Központ (Theatre and Casino).
Tasting the products of Harrer Chocolate Workshop. Chocolate Workshop. Cakes, pies, ice cream, snacks, coffee and selection of teas, hot chocolate, board and broke chocolates, bonbons, a chocolate pastilles and organic chocolate, handmade chocolates. Tasting times: daily 10:00 and 14:00.
SnookerClubSopron. Others: pool, snooker, rex, darts, table football, chess, card games.
Aréna Sopron. Bowling, squash, handball field, basketball court, fitness room.
All Star Bowling. Sports: bowling, squash, table tennis, table football.
Everybody Fitness. Aerobic-type training (Lessons: M-Th 18:30-19:30). Fitness room, gym, solarium, lie-infrared sauna, massage
Croco Gym. Fitness room with sauna and solarium.
Krasznai Ferenc Sports-court. Basketball court and aerobic-type training.
Lővér swimming pool. It was opened as the Forest Bath (Erdei Forrásfürdő) in 1908. Its travertine pool fed by Deákkúti source. Since 1975, there is an indoor swimming pool. The polygonal dome building can receive 720 people.
Sports Complex of Hotel Sopron. Sports: tennis, table football, table tennis, darts, fitness room, bicycling, swimming.
Discover Sopron town by bicycle. #1 cycle tour in Sopron (10 km). #2 from Sopron to the cyclamen valleys of the Alpine foothills (30 km), #3 from Sopron to Ferenc Liszt’s home village Raiding (Doborján), Austria. One way trip length is: 20 km, #4 from Sopron to Rust, Austria, #5 to the Forchtenstein's Castle (50 km roundtrip) and more with details on the Web, also some rentals and repairs options here.
Fertő Lake Watercomplex. Services: playground, outdoor free showers, drinking fountains, rental shop (Kayak, canoe), snack bar, beach volleyball court, lake cruises, motorboat port.
Tómalom Beach. Services: children's pool with slide, giant chess, playground, sun deck, jetties for sunbathing, outdoor free showers, drinking fountains, rental shop (boat, pedal boat, canoe).
Natura Vinotéka and Ecotours. Canoe tours daily two times (from mid May till mid Sep, min. ten people, three hours). Also wine testing, birdwatching, cyclist tours
Outdoor climbing wall. There is an artificial climbing wall in the heart of the city (Yard of the Hunyadi János School), which is 13 m high, with the area of more than 160 m². Other outdoor extreme sports: via ferrata, mountain & road biking, trekking & hiking, mountain & rock or ice climbing. Summit Sport Association, Address: Mikoviny u. 26.
Lake Szalamandra. Fishing, swimming, boating
Reservoir of Gida creek. Fishing, swimming, boating.
Crazy Garage (exit game). Other sports: Exit games
Outdoor Zone. Extreme sports, shooting, archery
Stadion of Local Government Sopron. Football field, home stadium of MFC Sopron.
Brennberg-völgyi Horse Club. Qualification: 2 horseshoes
Széchenyi Sailing Club. Sailing dock: Fertő Lake (Neusiedler Lake) Water Site.
Sopron's Railway Sports Association.
Walk on the Castle Wall Promenade. Start from 'Bünker-köz'. Behind the Theatre Street (Színház utca)- walk to the courtyard of County Hall. From there to the reinforced concrete gate that drive to Main square (Fő tér), A walkway leads further to the Theatre Street (Színház utca) 3. (See: Fabricius House, General House). We'll get to the Front Gate of the Castle (Előkapu). (See: Fire Tower, New Town Hall, Ruin garden of City house street (Városház utca), Large Round Bastion, eastern Outbreaks gate or Small Round Bastion). A stairs leading across the upper gorge castle wall to behind St. George street's houses. Across Bacchus inn yard you'll get to St. George Street (Szent György utca) and final to the Rear Gate Street (Hátsókapu utca)
Soproni Land Protective Circle. A nature protection area. The area of Sopron Nature Protection Area 4,095 hectares, of which 705 hectares of strictly protected. Offers: zoological value, botanical value, water habitat, look-out tower, educational path.
NA-TÚRA 2000 BT. Professional guidance: on request.
Study Forest Management Co.. State forest management. Woodland and villager hunting lodges. Sopron Park Forest seventeen thousand hectares of forest land. Hunting tickets.
Green Sopron. Marked hiking routes, friendly picnic areas, more than 40 springs, 20 brooks, seven lakes, 5 lookout towers in the natural environment of Sopron Hills. 369-km network of signposted tourist paths.
Botanical garden. Area 17.2 hectares. Protected birds. Protected indigenous and exotic plants.
Petőfi Theatre. Grand Theatre, Chamber Theatre, youth and child dance performances.
Lővér adventure park. Eight Ropes fields (separate for babies, for kids, and for adult, different difficulty levels), climbing walls, wooden box building, tree climbing, archery field, special bowling, trampoline, table tennis.
Sopron Crazy Garage. A real-life adventure game.
Festival Weeks - Concerts in the Cave Theatre in Fertőrákos. Early Music Festival Choral Festivals Spring Days Pan-European Picnic
Buy
Shopping is cheaper than in neighbouring Austria.
In the city you can buy trendy clothes in the shop "Jeans Club" or you can buy clothes and other stuff in the Plaza outside of the city. There's a new shopping centre near to the border of the town, where you can find shops of various famous brands, like Benetton or New Yorker.
Sopron Plaza Shopping and Entertainment Centre. Foodcourt includes: El Gusto Cafe&Bistro, Pizza Forte, Hütters Restaurant Flower (Virág) Café (daily 08:30-21:00), Total Cafe (Su-F 09:00-21:00, Sa 09:00-22:00), Illy Cafe (daily 08:00-19:00). Service stores: A to Z Clothing Repair, Exclusive Change (money changing, Western Unit), Auto-Aesthetik–Hand Wash (Car Wash), National Tobacco Shop, Smile Country Playhouse (for kids), Mr. Minit-Amethyst (cipőjavítás, kulcsmásolás, élezés, gravírozás, bélyegző készítés, tonertöltés) - Entertainment: Play Cafe & Billiards Party (M-Th 09:00-22:00, F Sa 09:00-24:00, Su 09:00-22:00), Cinema City (M-F 12:30-20:45, F 12:30-22:45, Sa 10:30-22:45, Su 10:30-20:45).
Alphapark Shopping Mall. Alpha Pharmacy (M-F 08:00-18:30; Sa 08:00-17:00), Chen's Cooking (restaurant, daily 11:30-22:00), Coffeeshop Company (M-Sa 09:00-20:00; Su 09:00-18:00), Dm drogerie (M-Sa 09:00-20:00; Su 10:00-17:00), Euronics Technical Store (M-Sa 09:00-20; Su 10:00-16:00), Euro Family household products shop (M-Sa 09:00-20:00, Su 09:00-19:00), Boutiques: Benetton, Brendon Baby Store, NewYorker, 'no age store' - Humanic (shoes, M-Sa 09:00-20:00, Su 10:00-18:00), Játéksziget Sopron (Toys, M-Th 10:00-19:00, F Sa 10:00-20:00, Su 10:00-19:00); Kappa Sportswear (M-Sa 09:00-20, Su 10:00-17:00), Lyric Book Store (M-Sa 9:00-20:00, Sun 10:00-18:00), Optura Optics (M-Sa 09:00-20:00, Su 10:00-17:00), Penny Market (discount supermarket store, M-Sa 07:00-20:00, Sun: 07:00-18:00) Reno (shoes, M-Sa 09:00-20:00, Su 09:00-18:00). Schneider (Watch and Jewellery, M-Sa 09:00-20:00, Su 10:00-17:00) Toy-Star (Game, gift, decoration, M-Sa 09:00-20:00, Su 10:00-17:00). Services: Speedfit Fitness Studio (daily 06:00-24:00), Therapiezentrum Sopron, (English- and German-speaking physiotherapists, Tu-Su 09:00-19:00)
Market. Fresh vegetables, organic products, manufactural, homemade cheeses and dairy products. Mushrooms checking.
Tesco hypermarket. Services: Wi-Fi, credit card and PayPass payment, ATMs, meat countertop, fresh bakery products, F & F clothing department, gift package making and packaging, free parking, home delivery. Left luggage office. Restaurant. Photo developing. Fish counter. Air-conditioned. Currency exchange. Pizza counter. Fitting room. Dry cleaning. Flower shop.
CBA supermarket. + unit: CBA Cent Diszkont ( Lackner K. u. 35., open: M-Sa 07:00-20:00, Su 07:00-19:00)
Lidl discount store. Discount store chain. More unit: Lófuttató út 4. (daily 07:00-20:00)
Spar supermarket. Supermarket chain.
dm drogeriemarkt. Austrian beauty/household store chain. Beauty, wellness health products. Baby care and household goods. Photo corner.
Eat
Buddha Beach & Cafe Club. Meditation practice on Mondays 19:00 to 22:00. Drink sales. Coffees, teas, cocktails, pool, sunbathing, F Sa DJ 'R'N'B' and 'House' Music. Su Live music. Wi-Fi zone.
Dömötöri Confectionery. Daily deals. Other units: Piazza San Marco Cafe - Confectionery (Lackner K. utca. 35, , email=), Zwinger Café (Várkerület 92., , ).
Harrer Chocolate Workshop and Confectionery. Pies, cakes, ice creams, sandwiches, snacks, coffee and specials.
Fortuna Pizzeria. Delivery and takeaway. Ordering: 70 2655777
Nagymama Restaurant. Small chain. Soups, sauces, casserole dishes, course meals, steaks and vegetarian dishes.
Prima Vita Pizzeria. Italian pastas, pizzas. Home delivery.
Lots of restaurants, predominantly Hungarian but also Viennese cuisine, frequented by Austrian daytime tourists.
Wollner Hotel and aWollner Restaurant. Baroque room (up to 40 persons), Wine cellar (up to 55 persons), Flandorffer-Room (up to 25 persons), Mediterranean Terrace, Hanging garden (for a wedding or a party). The wine list include: sparkling wines, dry and sweet white wines, rosé wines and dry red wines.
Chen's Wok & Grill Restaurant. Try ramen & udon soups, Kan Bian chicken (spicy chicken with vegetable ) or Sa-Za Beef (beef with broccoli).
White Rose (Fehér Rózsa) Tavern and Restaurant. Delivery.
Fogas Restaurant. Offering the widest selection of freshwater fish
Graben Restaurant. Wide variety of Hungarian and Austrian specialites. The restaurant has a good atmosphere.
Juventus Restaurant. Air-conditioned, wheelchair accessible, Hungarian and German menucard. Seats: 80.
Kiskakukk (Little Cuckoo) Restaurant. F and Sa nights (19:00-24:00): live 'nostalgia' music.
Mediterrano Restaurant and Confectionery. Confectionery: fresh bread, Mediterranean sandwiches, egg dishes and coffee Lamborghini. Restaurant: mainly Mediterranean cuisine and also Hungarian and international flavors
Papa Joe Saloon and Steakhouse. Restaurant up to 180 people. Terrace for 120 people, event room for 40 people. Wild West theme, grilled meats, 100 kinds of whisky. Wi-Fi. Try the extreme sixed grilled tenderloin one kg with 'Joe' garnish. Ft 20,000
Perkovátz House. Anglo-Saxon, Victorian interiors, original Anglo-American draft beers. Fine selection of food and drinks, besides modern dishes, the typical flavours, ingredients and traditional recipes for home-made dishes. Delivery.
Schmauser Tavern. Hungarian. international cuisine.
Pince Restaurant. Ample portions with Hungarian flavours.
Royal Bisztró. Local bistro-style Hungarian cuisine.
Drink
If you're in Sopron, you have to drink a glass of the famous wine of the area around sopron, it's called "Kékfrankos". Cellars and pubs
Caesar cellar. Cold dishes and fine wines of Sopron
Gázfröccs Pub. 'Romkocsma' (lit. ruin pub) style. Events, modern exhibits, small concerts.
Kisdeák Pub and Restaurant. Charming, retro.
Old Boy's Restaurant and Pub. An Irish pub.
Prinyo cellar. 120 seats. 2 non-smoking and one smoking room Foods:Home-cooked smoked knuckle with pickled horseradish, boiled eggs, bread; Pork cold dish; Roast homemade sausage-with meat; Cheese plate; Hot sandwich; bread and dripping. Wines: Green veltelíni, Tramini, Sauvignon Blanc, Zweigelt, Blaufränkisch Rosé, Blaufränkisch, Cabernet Sauvignon, various Cuvée wines, Cabernet Sauvignon Barrique. - Prinyo Wine shop (Sopron Plaza, Lackener Kristóf utca. 35. open: daily 09:00-20:00).
Taste Vino Borbar and Wine shop. Services: Sommelier service, mobile sommelier tastings, wine dinners; gift packages; wine studies courses; other events
Vincellér House Restaurant and wine bar. The restaurant capacity 48 people. In summer, also there is a cozy beer garden with 70 seats. Served own made wines.
Minus One Club. Cafe, bowling, brewery and grocery - buffet at same place.
Sleep
Botanikuskert Hostel. Capacity: 203 people. Only during summer. Rooms (53): 17 double, one 1+2 bed, twelve 2+2 bed, two triple, fourteen 2 + 3 bed room, seven 3+3 bed. Breakfast is served 07:00-09:30. 24-hour front desk. Elevator. Free closed parking inside. Kitchen. Internet and cable television access in rooms. Wheelchair access rooms. Locked bicycle storage. Meeting room, laundry, a smoking room per each level, taxi ordering, bus parking. Wellness services: Gym daily/weekly: Ft 400/1200 per person; Finnish sauna: Ft 600/hour for one person, over 2 persons: Ft 500/person, cabin rental (8 people): Ft 3500/hour, Turbo solarium: Ft 100/min. Other services: Secure underground parking garage: Cars for Ft 500/night or one week: Ft 2500; Motorcycle for Ft 300/night or one week: Ft 1500. The closed open air parking are free. Dual bowling lanes: Ft 1500/lane/hour.
Sopron University Student Hotel. Capacity: 398 people (study period 40), rooms (117): 35 double (apartment-like rooms with bath); 82 2+2-bed (apartment-like rooms a bath for two rooms), Wi-Fi, microwave oven, refrigerator. Wellness and other services see at Botanikuskert Hostel. Family-friendly accommodation. There is a grocery store, a bowling pub. Lounge to 60 people. Garden benches, grill and fire ring site. Sun terrace, sun beds and chairs. Locked bicycle storage. 24-hour front desk. Elevator. Free closed parking inside. Cookware kitchen Internet and cable television access in rooms. Wheelchair access rooms. Meeting room.
Shosi Hostel. Rooms 72 four bed rooms.
Bezerédj Amália Hostel. Capacity: 131 people (study period 8). Rooms (34): two double, one triple, thirty one 2+2 bed. Breakfast is served 07:00-9:30. Wellness and other services see at Botanikuskert Hostel. 24-Hour Front Desk. Elevator. Free closed parking inside. Kitchen. Internet and cable television access in rooms. Wheelchair access rooms. Locked bicycle storage. Meeting room, laundry, a smoking room per each level, taxi ordering, bus parking.
Brennberg Children and Youth Camp. Restaurant here.
Cyclamen Chalets. Open Apr-Sep. Ideal for 5-10 persons per house. Three bedrooms for 4-2-2 people; a living room with two beds; kitchenette with fridge, kitchen tools can be rented; bathroom, shower; toilet; the building is heated by electrical means provided in the heating season on demand.
Park Hostel. Shared bathroom, large screen TV in the lounge, kitchen. Free parking and Wi-Fi.
Alpesi Trimmel Guesthouse. Self-catering. Special guest kitchen with a fridge, an excellent restaurant is ~800 m away. Open from 07:00-22:00.
Gibraltár Guesthouses. Capacity: 24 people. All rooms with private bathroom, hairdryer, cable TV and internet connection, partly air-conditioned. Ask for a discount card to have dinner in the popular restaurant, (only 8 minutes' walk). Other unit: Vak Bottyán u.1.
Anna Pansion. Services: 5 double rooms with bathroom (shower, toilet), with cable TV, internet connection. Diner, lounge with cable TV. Closed parking place in the yard, camera guarded parking place. Card operated entrance, upon request washing facility and assistance with the programs in the town. No pets.
Atrium Pansion & Wellness. Room prices include all taxes, a rich continental breakfast, unlimited high speed Internet access, and free of charge parking use. High season: Apr-Aug, Christmas, New Year. Open: 24/7, reception: 06:00-22:00, wellness: 08:00-22:00. Wellness services: luxurious bubble bath up to six-person, two-person infrared sauna, five-person Finnish sauna. Massage: Traditional and numerous special kind.
Bástya Pansion. 11 double rooms, 4 four-bed rooms, 1 five-bed room. All rooms with bathroom, TV, refrigerator, free Internet WiFi. Other services: non-stop reception, parking (car, bus, truck), central safe copying, fax, mail service for guests, breakfast (07:00-10:00). Airport transfer (Vienna), gratis over 5 nights. Constitution of the dentistry.
B&B Villa Mimi Pansion. A friendly and cosy pension with six guest rooms and a large garden. Rooms: Green Lily (tween) Yellow Daffodils (double) Silver Tulip (tween) Red Rose (Deluxe) Violet Blue (tween) White Rose (Suite). Minimum stay two nights in special period three nights. Only cash.
Bianco Pansion. Agoston family's pansion. Services: large, safe parking place, a sauna, a fitness room, a breakfast room with a fireplace and a garden, a water-rotating pool, airport transfer, free keeping of parcels, dogs are welcome, free internet, Wi-Fi, free bike rental for 2 hours per day.
Dali Pansion. Double rooms with panoramic garden views, television, radio and refrigerator in all rooms also shower cabin bathroom. Friendly atmosphere and hotel standard rooms.
Diana Pansion and Restaurant. Breakfast included.
Erhardt Restaurant and Pansion. cozy wine cellar, and a pleasant garden. 9 rooms. Guests can park in its parking-place in Halász street 7. Service: concerts- or theatrical evenings tickets, chocolate- and wine-tasting or excursions. Rooms are with: ergonomic mattress, LCD-TV, air conditioning, a bathroom with a bathtub or shower for each room, towel, safe box. Upon request, Provide: babybed extra bed, wireless internet Ft 500.
Fehér Rózsa Pansion and Restaurant. Restaurant open daily 11:00-23:00. Bicycle rentals, skiing, ski school organizing
Füzi Pansion. Capacity: 32 people. Rooms: one four-bed, four triples and eight doubles all with bath and TV. Reception: daily 07:00-22:00. Breakfast 07:30-9:30. Free Wi-Fi. Free closed parking is available.
Jagermeister Pansion. Rooms are equipped with a television, shower, toilet, air-conditioning and a mini bar. guarded parking, storage for motorcycles and bicycles, rent-a-car and rent-a bike, managing of mail, receiving faxes, money exchange, cab ordering, wake-up service, information on cultural and leisure programs, transfer from Vienna/Schwechat airport, organizing dental-medical services, wireless Internet.
Jégverem Guesthouse and Restaurant. 2- and 4-bed rooms with TV and in-suite bathroom
MKB Aréna. 28 places. 2,3,4 bed rooms with TV, shower
Palatinus Pansion. Capacity: 60 people. Single rooms, double rooms and apartments with a shower and toilet. Services: non-smoking rooms, wake up calls, drink-bar, closed parking, internetconnection in a lobby (free), SAT TV, creditcard acception, cab/taxi ordering, money exchange
Palma Pansion. Four double, three triple, a quadriple and a family room.
Pihenokereszt Pansion. Three single, seven double rooms with minibar, television, some of the rooms are air-conditioned and all rooms have free Internet access. Other services: secured parking, bike rental.
Polus Pansion. Reception daily 06:00-21:00. From 21:00-06:00 there is a surveillance monitoring system and security guard. A shower, toilet, sink, television, safe and fridge in the rooms. The upstairs rooms are air-conditioned. Rooms: eleven double, one suite (with two rooms and with a mini kitchen), 3 four-bed-rooms (suite-like with a mini kitchen).
Randevu Pansion. Capacity: 18 people. Three double, four triple rooms, all of them with digital SAT TV, air conditioning, free internet access. Bakery, café, cosmetics and dentistry.
Taverna Restaurant and Pansion. Also cozy cellar restaurant. Home-made, inexpensive food, music and dance events
Tercia Hubertus Pansion. The number of rooms: 12 all with TV, bathroom with shower, free Wi-fi.
Vadászkürt Restaurant and Pansion. Four rooms with 12 beds. Parking is free (in front of the inn), Wifi is free throughout the house. All rooms with in-room safe, bathroom, hair dryer, mini bar, large screen satellite TV, free Wi-Fi
Pannonia Hotel. The oldest hotel in the city with free Wi-Fi. 'Classic' double room (single, double and twin beds) with mini bar, LED TV, free Wi-Fi . 'Comfort' double room same as Classic, plus air-conditioning,and some rooms with a small balcony or terrace. 'Antique apartment' same as Classic just bigger with one or two rooms inside. 'Family apartment' with two separate rooms
Boutique Hotel Civitas. 28 rooms with free high speed internet access, LCD TV, safe. Payments: traveler's check, credit card, foreign currency acceptance.
Danubius Bio Sport Hotel Lövér. 117 rooms (most with balcony), three suites. All rooms with hair dryer, minibar, radio, TV, bathrobes on request. There are some connecting and smoking rooms. The hotel service include: laundry service, room service, hotel safe deposit box, souvenir shop, parking facilities for cars and coaches, playroom for children, playground, resting park, free WiFi in common areas.- There is the 'Borostyán Restaurant and terrace' (serving Hungarian and International cuisine also diet and spa menus), health bar, drink bar.
Hotel Sopron. 43 double room Comfort Plus, fourteen Premium style rooms, twenty three View Premium double room, eight View Premium triple rooms, two Premium Style triple rooms, one single room, seven family rooms, one apartment, one of La Toya Suite. The wellness services: Fullbody, face, Thai, Thalasso spa shaping massages, aromatherapy, green algae spa exfoliation, delicate chocolate peeling, Thalasso shaping treatment with algatherapy, "The sweet pleasure" chocolate wrap. Finnish sauna, Solarium, Fitness room. Other services in the hotel include swimming-pool in the garden (it is available for free. Open: Jun-Sept), playing ground for children, family and child-friendly services, clay tennis court (tennis rackets and balls rental) table tennis, bicycle storage, bike rent, high speed internet connection is available free of charge in the hotel, central safe at the reception desk available free of charge, a parking lot closed by barriers and checked with cameras is to be used by our guests for free both for cars and buses. Aperitifs 8 cl 900-1100, mineral water (0.33 dl) Ft 400-800, soft drinks, juices (2-3.5 dl) Ft 400-1100, flowing wines (1 dl) Ft 450-1200, bottled beers (0.5 L) Ft 700-900, Champagne (0.75 L) Ft 3200 - 4700, spirits (4 cl) Ft 900 - 1100. Whiskey (4 cl) 900 -2100. Brandy, cognac, liqueur (4 cl) Ft 800-2200, coffee, tea Ft 400-1200
Hotel Panorama. Private bathroom with shower, TV (40 TV channels), radio, refrigerator, summer fan in the room. Free Wifi throughout the building, microwave use, bicycle storage, ski storage, mobile BBQ. By appointment: bike rental, excursion by bus, boat trip, guide.
Rosengarten Hotel, Restaurant, Dental and Beauty Salon. Offering a full range of services in dental tourism to its guests. free phones from abroad= Austria: 0 800 293545, Germany: 0 800 1813637, Switzerland: 0 800 563577. 24 standard, superior, deluxe, a/c rooms. 350-seat restaurant with a winter garden, banquet room and terrace. Also here is a beauty salon with a wide variety of services (hairdressing, cosmetic treatments, manicure, pedicure, artificial nail, massage and body treatments), the wellness/Turkish bath part include infrasauna, scented steam bath, adventure shower and solarium.
Saphir Aqua Aparthotel. Opened in summer 2010 in a pine forest area. Services: fitness room, indoor swimming pool, Jacuzzi, rent-a-bike, sauna, table-tennis, tennis.
Hotel Siesta. In the middle of a park in the Lővérek, a green hilly area with a view onto the town. Service: tennis courts.
Solar Club Hotel , Restaurant and Mini ABC. Restaurant: familiar restaurant and garden is suitable for 40-40 people. Meals are made exclusively Hungarian ingredients and homemade taste represented. Monday to Friday, offers a varied menu. Menu A: Ft 890, Menu B: Ft 990. Open: Jun-Aug 08:00-22:00, Sep-Mar 12:00-20:00. Mini ABC: basic foods (milk, bread, rolls, packaged cold cuts, cheese, butter, mineral water, etc.) available. Open: M-F 08:00-10:00 and 16:00-18:00, Sa 08:00-10:00.
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