Veszprém

Veszprém (in Slovak Vesprím) is a city in western Hungary. The town of Queens. It lies on both sides of the river Séd. The resident population (about 64,000) believes that the city was founded on seven hills, like Rome. The seven hills are as follows: Várhegy (Castle Hill), Benedek-hegy (St Benedict Hill), Jeruzsálem-hegy (Jerusalem Hill), Temetőhegy (Cemetery Hill), Gulyadomb (Herd Hill), Kálvária-domb (Calvary Hill), Cserhát.

The distance to Budapest is approx. 110 km (via the M7 motorway and road number 8).

Veszprém is the capital city of the administrative county (comitatus or megye) with the same name in western Hungary, north of Lake Balaton(approx. 15 km). More information about the county and the historical county of the Kingdom of Hungary with the same name can be found here: Veszprém (county).

External link

The official website of Veszprém