Göd is famous for its thriving tourism. It has a thermal spa open almost 365 days a year with its water already declared as rich in minerals.
Göd is a small city in Pest County, Hungary.
- From Budapest, it can be reached by car on the main road 2 or the M2 motorway , by train on the Budapest – Szob railway line ( Alsógöd , Göd and Felsőgöd stops ), by Volánbus or on the cycle path along the Danube .
- 1846 . The first Hungarian railway line opened here on 15 July . In 1877, the line had stations only in Rákospalota , Dunakeszi and Göd.
- There are four intercity Volan bus routes through the city ( 300 , 301 , 345 , 371 ) and a privately operated local service (an Ikarus 405 bus).
Sights
Buildings
- Nemeskéri-Kiss Mansion
- Treasure stable and inn – He rented a stable here and prepared the famous racehorse, Ernő Blaskovits, for the competitions.
- Traces of the late Roman oval fortification of Contra Constantiam with 12 circular towers excavated near Göd-Bócsaújtelep in 2001
- Pich Villa (today’s town hall)
- Tost-Wigner villa (ma piarista school)
- Schöffer Castle (children’s home-Újtelep)
- Walch House (now a primary school), the office of a former brick factory, then a villa
- Irma-lak
- Bar bar villa
- Mirror villa
- Villa Huzella, (in the Huzella Garden ), owned by ELTE
- Pheasant restaurant, built in 1876 as accommodation for journalists coming here because of Kincsem
- László Németh’s villa, the writer and his family vacationed and lived here, he wrote his works entitled Human Play, Wednesday Reception Day and Witness
- Szapáry castle
- Biciklista Nagyv Vendéglő, today’s József Attila Cultural House, got its name from the first Hungarian amateur bicycle competition, which took place between Budapest and Göd
- The hotel, which has won the World Travel Awards three times, is the Pólus Palace Thermal Golf Club Hotel.
- Country flag, the country flag torn down after World War II was inaugurated in 2009
Churches
Göd was already a church place in the Middle Ages, its circular church stood near today’s castle hill. Today there are 5 churches. Felsőgöd:
- The Parish Church of the Heart of Jesus in Felsőgöd, the church inaugurated in 1924 was helped to build by Colonel Gyula Bozóy of Pilismaróti
- Felsőgöd Reformed Church, built in 1939
both churches are in neo-Romanesque style. Alsógöd:
- The church of St. Stephen in Alsógöd, a small church built in 1908 and then supplemented several times, was set on fire in 1993, and was gradually rebuilt from 1996 until the early 2000s.
- Alsógöd Reformed Church, completed in 1999
- Alsógöd Lutheran Church, the church built near the Bottomless Lake was consecrated in 1929
Natural values
- A section of the Danube is a popular excursion destination.
- The island of ‘sand’ in Göd is especially protected due to its unique values.
- The Szakáts Garden and fishing lake.
- The Huzella Garden and the “Huzella Garden” of the Eötvös Loránd Garden Herb Garden are nature and ecotourism stations.
- Széchenyi spring (formerly Zsuzsi spring), named after Ödön Széchenyi, spent one of his summers in the nearby Danube villa.
- There was a giant walnut tree over 120 years old that was cut down in 1982. It can still be seen in several landscapes today.
- 25 acres of forest cut into tarra in the fall of 2018 due to the expansion of the South Korean factory!
- 50 hectares of wooded meadow with lakes.
Other sights
Thermal water beach.