Komárom
The strategic importance of this town on the Danube has been evident all through its history: it was a colonial town of Lower Pannonia in Roman Brigetio; a fortress was built on the orders of St. Stephen in the 11th century and it became 'the city of fortresses' in the 19th century. The three fortresses in the town are unique monuments of military and industrial history. The Monostor Fortress, a building complex of about 40 thousand m2, is he largest. Protected with a system of casemates and moats, completely invisible from the outside, it is the best preserved fortress in Europe. The much smaller Igmándi fortress houses the Roman lapidary collection of the György Klapka Museum. The third, the Csillag Fortress is, for the time being, not open to the public. Under the Treaty of Trianon, the northern part of the town was annexed to Czechoslovakia. The two parts are connected by the Erzsébet ('Elisabeth') Bridge. Situated in a quiet park with shady trees, its six pools supplied with thermal waters gushing from a depth of 1,268 m, the town's thermal baths offer remedial treatment for locomotor and gynaecological disorders.
