Szentendre is a small town, situated just north from Budapest, on the banks of the Danube. Whenever you have the chance to visit this smal...

There are times, when words mean nothing. In this post, there will be no data, date, paragraphs of law, engineering plans and documents...

Cover of the first edition, 1726 Count Luigi Fernando Marsigli embodies a long vanished kind of people, very dear to my heart, thos...

...by Tiberius Haterius Callinicus . I read this weather-beaten inscription on a stone altar at the lapidary of the Aquincum Museum in ...

Between March 6th and 18th, 1838, the Margaret island between Buda and Pest ceased to exist. For two weeks the whole island, a property of...

In hydrological point of view the German section of the Danube offers many interesting places. First of all: where does the Danube come ...

  It all started, when I found a piece of pottery on a Visegrád hillside with dense shrubs. At least it seemed like one. This piece of p...

Earlier I haven't noticed these statues. I walked them by as anybody else these days. Moreover I did not even read the inscription bel...

The "Croatian Danube-bend expression in the title may not considered as an existing geographical name. I am not sure if anybody has u...

  Heartly I admit that until last week I had no knowledge of the Danubian lighthouses. At least I had a suspicion that maybe I have seen o...

In the Szentendre Danue, opposite the Luppa Island, there was a small island, which praises the work of Hungarian water construction and...

If I had to briefly summarize the year of 2012 from the point of view of the Danube Islands, I would only say: it was very good. However, ...

In year 1941, Hungary regained most of its old parts, like southern Slovakia, Subcarpathia, northern Transylvania and Vojvodina. The Hunga...

It is very hard to say anything new of the sunken island of Ada Kaleh. Many memoirs, pictures, and literature can be found of this lost pa...

Gemenc is one of the largest floodplains along the Danube, that remained. The riverine forests and meadows have escaped the river regulati...

Those who wander often on the danubian floodplains, will soon receive immunity against finding weird things in the riverine forests and m...

Autumn has arrived to the banks of the Danube. Dense fog hides in its side arms, between the trees. Rays of sunlight can only lift the vap...

   If we go through the admirable photo collaction of Fortepan.hu with an eye got used to geomorphology, we can find a lot of interestin...

Busy death is seeking this era... Fortepan.hu , a famous collection of old photographs has just published several pictures, taken from ame...

Enns. A less than 254 km long tributary of the left side of the Danube. Starting from the Radstäter Tauern and initially heading to east, ...