Leányfalu

Infobox Settlement
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = HUN
timezone=CET
utc_offset=+1
timezone_DST=CEST
utc_offset_DST=+2
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official_name=Leányfalu


subdivision_type1=County
subdivision_name1=Pest
area_total_km2=15.37
population_total=3159
population_footnotes=
population_as_of=2007
population_density_km2=168.45
postal_code_type=Postal code
postal_code=2016
area_code=26
latd=47.71
longd=19.08
website=http://www.leanyfalu.hu/

Leányfalu is a riverside village in Pest county, Budapest metropolitan area, Hungary. It is just north of Szentendre located at coord|47|43|0|N|19|4|60|E. Located between the branch of the Small Danube (Kis-Duna) and the spurs of the Visegrád Hills, Leányfalu stretches some 5 kilometres in length. Declared a holiday resort in 1936, it became an independent municipality in 1949.

To visit Leányfalu from Budapest, take the local Volán buses on the Budapest Árpád Bridge - Tahitótfalu - Visegrád - Esztergom line, which leaves around one to three times an hour. By automobile, take route 11 passing through Szentendre.

Trivia

* Some of the best Hungarian writers, artists and musicians have retreated to Leányfalu.
* The town got recent media attention in the Ciaran Tobin extradition case.

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