The railway which leads to it, is the Budapest-Bruck Line. We cross the Danube by the great railway bridge and speed over the wooded hills of the Vertes Range to the Little Lowlands. At Tata, whose glistening lake is surrounded by the extensive Park and old Castle of the Esterházy's, we are already in the Lowlands; in a short time we reach Komarom, the most famous fortress of Hungary.

This town, situated at the confluence of the Great and Little Danubes and surrounded by water on three sides, was formerly considered impregnable; even today it has an accommodation capacity for 60,000 men, and constitutes a very important encampment The citadel dates from the 16th Century, and was restored and modernised from 1805 to 1830; half hidden by its entrenchments and earthwork stretching along the Danube, it forms an interesting picture of one of the most powerful fortresses in Europe. The military character of the town itself, was less favourable, its slow development almost resembling stagnation. The Church of St. Andrew, much damaged by several earthquakes, the statue of General George Klapka, the heroic defender of Komarom, in 1848 to 1849, and the house where the celebrated Hungarian novelist, Maurice Jokai was born, excite our interest.

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Adapted from Illustrated Description of Hungary and its Capital