Traffic started on the railway line connecting Budapest and Hatvan in the spring of 1867. The Hungarian state gifted Francis Joseph and queen Elizabeth with the castle and demesne of Gödöllő on the occasion of their coronation in the same year and from that time on, the royal couple and their retinue would regularly travel by train to Gödöllő. In order for the king to be able to travel by train from Vienna directly to Budapest, they connected two lines in the vicinity of Kőbánya station creating the royal track called like this even today.

The world famous area on 510 acres was declared protected in 1944. It is now the pearl of our geological legacy as it is an unparalleled quarry of prehistory demolished by a volcano 20 million years ago.

Sándor Kisfaludy and his wife settled in the house for good in 1800, following the Napoleonic wars. Since they had no descendants, their relatives sold the house to the bishopric of Veszprém. However, in 1944 the house was nationalised. Since 1950 a Kisfaludy Memorial House, since 1990 the Towmn Museum have been functioning here.

The farmer house was built in 1911, in traditional style. Its first room is the summer kitchen. The large and small rooms are opening from here. The stove of the large room was heated from the kitchen. Later, when this special kind of stove was not in fashion any more, the large room was turned into a so-called clean room. The chimney of the kitchen was also done away with. That is how the kitchen became an entrance room.

One of the outstanding baroque buildings of Hungary is the Száraz-Rudnyánszky mansion, which bears the characteristics of the Grassalkovich type mansion houses. The building is divided by columns, pillars and chambers formed according to the demands of the age for rich light-shade effects.

The historic past of Eger, the beauty and the high quality wines of this baroque town, and last but not least the fortress of Eger with the heroism of the gallant soldiers of the borders attract tourists from all parts of the world. The natural hot springs these natural resources also constitute the treasure of Eger. Tourists who have a desire for a bath can enjoy not only the refreshing warm water but its curing effects, as well, if taking advantage of the water they visit the open-air bath or the swimming pool.

This house is more than just a museum in the traditional sense of the word. The purpose of the founders has been to preserve and show as much as possible of both Szőnyi's works and the milieu where these works were created. So visitors seeing the collection of Szőnyi's outstanding works the visitors can enter a world not existing any more, can get acquainted with the relics of the studio otherwise closed from the public.