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Train Service Launched to Explore the World Heritage Site of Lake Neusiedl

Hungary Today 2024.04.15.

The Lake Neusiedl train service between Sopron (northwestern Hungary) and Neusiedl am See in Austria will run from April to August this year. The aim is to offer an environmentally friendly way to visit the Hungarian and Austrian side of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Lake Neusiedl (Hungarian: Fertő tó).

The trains will run on Saturdays and Sundays, the first one departing from Sopron on Saturday, and will run until August 25, according to GYSEV (Raaberbahn, a Hungarian-Austrian railway company).

Photo via Facebook/GYSEV Zrt

The railway company has set up the timetable to ensure optimal connections to the Lake Neusiedl trains for tourists coming from Győr (in northwestern Hungary) or Budapest and Szombathely or Szentgotthárd (both in western Hungary).

The trains can be used by purchasing a Lake Neusiedl train ticket, also providing free bicycle transport,

they added.

Photo via Wikipedia

In addition, Turizmus.com previously reported in detail about the possibilities for cycling tourists in the area.

If you look at the national map of cycling-friendly services, one of the most densely dotted areas is around Lake Neusiedl. Hotels, guesthouses, restaurants, beer houses, pubs, wine bars, and exhibition centers proudly display the “cyclist-friendly” sticker in the region. There are 35-40 such places listed in the MAKETUSZ Cyclist Friendly app in this area alone.

Fact

The Lake Neusiedl area has been the meeting place of different cultures for eight millennia. This is graphically demonstrated by its varied landscape, the result of an evolutionary symbiosis between human activity and the physical environment. Being the westernmost representative of the Eurasian steppe lakes, the Lake Neusiedl Cultural Landscape and the settlements surrounding it were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2001, by UNESCO in the cultural category, followed by the joint nomination of Hungary and Austria. This is an area of outstanding natural values and landscape diversity created and sustained by the encounter of different landscape types. The remarkable rural architecture of the villages surrounding the lake and several 18th-and 19th-century palaces add to the area’s considerable cultural interest. The palace of the township of Nagycenk, the Széchenyi Mansion, and the Esterházy Palace in Fertőd are also exceptional cultural testimonies.

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Via MTI, Turizmus.com; Featured image via Facebook/József Kovács

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