Pro

A beautiful, historic old town only 60 KM from Vienna
Con

Closes down for the winter months.
In a nutshell

Worth the trouble
Ekaterinburg Says: Originally a Fransciscan monastery stood on this spot and it's church, in the 18th century,eventually passed to the Benedictines.This is a fine example of Hungarian Gothic architecture, apparently one of the finest in all of Hungary. It's called the 'Goat Church' because of...
1 Review and 20 Opinions We stayed here during the low season in February for almost a week. The service was quite good...
ancato Says: The staff speak a little English and excellent German (in fact almost all the people in Sopron do so). The portions were big and the prices ok. I recommend chicken with peach (even my husband liked it and he never likes fruits with meat).
Redang Says: Road distances from Sopron to:- Budapest: 211 kms.- Berlin (Germany): 720 kms.- Rome (Italy): 1.118 kms.- Madrid (Spain): 2.412 kms.To find out more road distances together with driving times, check the web.
Firewatch Tower: A small souvenir
ancato Says: It is a machinery at the entrance of the Firewatch Tower. An elongated coin is made by a coin being forced between two steel rollers. An engraving with Sopron's Fo Ter is on one of the rollers and as the coin passes through the rollers it is elongated under tremendous...
The Fire Tower - Symbol of Sopron
Ekaterinburg Says: The Fire Tower ( Fo ter ) is the actual tower which gives its name to the square below it. I was a bit mystified about the importance of this Fire Tower until I got back home and read about the great fire of 1676 which destroyed most of the town and almost all of its...
hu_women Says: St. George's Church in JakThe Benedictine abbey church was built around 1220. The church is the most significant monument of Romanesque architecture in Hungary.A few statues of the apostles were damanged by Turkish troops
Ekaterinburg Says: All the streets I mentioned in the old town had arches and heavy wooden doors at street level. Some of these doors were open, some needed a little push but all revealed their own treasures. Here behind the crumbling outer facades were the functional doors and windows of...
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The baroque sculpture of the Trinity Column is in the centre of the main square.This votive sculpture was built by Eva Katalin Thokoly and her husband Jakab...
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Q: Will Sopron give a tourist a good taste of Hungarian culture? Or is it too close to Vienna? Is there another Western Hungarian...

A: Sopron, Bratislava and in part Budapest look like Vienna en miniature. Partly the same building and a similar flair. However and still, there is a Hungarian flair in...
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Sopron - A little taste of Hungary

Some time ago I read an article about Sopron's Old Town which lodged itself in my imagination and refused to go away. Sometime afterwards I checked it out in the Rough Guide to Hungary and was...
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Where? The small Hungarian town of Sopron lies in the extreme west of the country (in the western Transdanubia region) just a few kilometers from the Austrian and Slovak borders. Sopron lies 212km...
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Sopron is located near the Austrian-Hungarian border, 60 kms far from Vienna and 220kms far from Budapest. There are quiet nice streets of the historical city centre and beautiful buildings, monuments...
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