Why is it worth to stay at Leányfalu?

Leányfalu is a wonderful settlement, on one of the most beautiful part of the Dunakanyar. The Duna is on one side of this narrow community, and on the other side you are able to see the border of the fascinating Pilis Mountains.
The main attraction of Leányfalu is the beach and the thermal baths, which in the resent years underwent through multiple modernizations. Leányfalu’s thermal baths not only offer recreational and sport facilities for you with their swimming and thermal water pools, but you can also use the steam baths, sauna that is located within the beach facility. If you are not satisfied with the possibility of swimming, then you can go to the fitness club, where there are modern body building and cardio machines, group aerobics, yoga, spinracing, belly dancing, pilates sessions that are waiting for you. In the winter time within the beach facility there is an ice skating rink in operation and nearby there are indoor tennis courts that await you.

Although in the village, there are relatively few historic monuments, the Danube promenade, or roaming within the village between its old villas, and the streets which are filled with chestnuts rows, still present a pleasant pastime for young and adults equally.
The Hársfa Guesthouse’s rooms provide an excellent base for you to tour not only Leányfalu, but to travel around other locations comfortably, in order for you to reach the locations fast by car, bicycle, or by public transport, so that you can look at other sight seeing possibilities in the Dunakanyar. During a week long vacation it is much easier to reach Szentendre, Visegrád and Esztergom, from Leányfalu, than it would be from Budapest. The ship lines that start from Leányfalu can take you to the towns that are along the Danube. Within the surrounding communities there are many horseback riding opportunities. In Kisoroszi there is even a golf club that is waiting for you, even if you just love sports or if you are interested in learning them. The island can be a real paradise if you are looking for a place to relax. There is even a chance for fishing, or if you have a passion for water sports, there are various opportunities for that as well.
The best way to discover Szentendre is by foot and that is how you can really get to know the city’s baroque and copf style cottages, its cobblestone streets, narrow alleys, and its twisting stairways. The Mediterranean atmosphere of Szentendre was created by the Serbians who were fleeing from the Turks, and at that time period many churches were raised. This town is recognized as a religious and cultural center for the Serbs in Hungary. This is even revealed by the Serbian Orthodox Church Museums Collection and there is illustration of this at the Serbian Bishop’s Cathedral in Belgrade as well.

You can learn about the living Orthodox Church Art and about the worlds of the churches at the baroque and rococo Blagovesztenszka church. From the top of the hill, where a Roman Catholic Parish Church is standing a beautiful view awaits you: the cavalcade of red roofs, white walls, and yellow church towers. Szentendre is truly the city of art. More than, 20 museums, galleries await for you with the works of such artists as Barcsay Jenő, Kovács Margit, Kmetty János or Ferenczy Károly.
If you would desire some kind of cultural program, you may choose from multiple musical and theatrical performances within this charming small town. An unforgettable experience for you could also be the outdoor museum in Szentendre, the Skanzen. Near the boundaries of the city, at the foot of the mountains the open-air Ethnographic Museum was built on 50 hectares of land, where old houses, village streets, material cultures, and traditions of the different Hungarian regions are presented to its visitors. Since upgrading the Museum in 2008 the visitors can wonder around in this vast area with a functional, built in the beginning of the century train. The children can watch farm animals in their original environment, and they can even pet these animals.
If you would prefer the mountains, from Leányfalu you can directly go to the 700 meter peaks of the Pilis. Leányfalu is a great starting point to see the typical small villages of the Pilis, ex. Csobánka with its Grace Chapel, Pilisszentkereszt with its ruins of Cistercian Monasteries built in the XII.century, or you can visit Dobogókő.
If you are not afraid from serious walking or cycling trips, then the Danube-Ipoly National Park is waiting for you with open arms: the Oszoly-rock, the Pilis mountains-rooftop, the Dera-gorge, the Vaskapu-paths, Holdvirág-ditches and there are many marked mountain trails to hike on.
From the mountains heading downwards to the level of the Danube, there are steep, rocky gorges and ridges, which can be accessible by sporty people, but there are also easy routes, gently sloping valley streams, (ex. Apátkúti-stream, Áprily-stream) for families to hike on as well. Dunabogdány has interesting geological offers for you at the Csódi- Mountain Quarry.
There are also a number of attractions that are offered by the country’s former capital Visegrád. In Visegrád, built at the time of Róbert Károly (XIV.century.), then later rebuilt and enlarged in Renaissance style at the time of King Mátyás in the XV.century, stands the royal palace that is famous throughout Europe. Above Visegrád, where the peak of the mountain is rising, you can find the Citadel which was built in the XIII.century. Form the terrace of the castle the most beautiful panoramic view of the Dunakanyar welcomes you.
For adults and children it is a lot of fun in the winter and summer time to slide on the bobsleigh track. In winter, when there is snow it is worth to mount your skis, because at Nagyvillám there are even working ski lifts. The surrounding Pilis Forest Park is not only for those who would like to rest, but there are numerous big game hunting fields as well.