If you want to see the sights of the Danubes left bank you will soon arrive in Vác through Göd and Sződliget on highway 2.

Vác is a one-thousand-year-old episcopal seat on the Danube bank. It was the terminus of the first railway service launched in Pest in 1846, at the time trains arrived here at a speed of 30 km per hour.

Konstantin tér is dominated by the imposing Classicist cathedral. The Episcopal palace was built in the 18th century. The tabernacle of the Piarist Church and Monastery are also noteworthy.
All houses on Március 15. tér are protected Baroque monuments. The Church of the White Company was named after the Dominicans in white habit. Its altar is a richly decorated Rococo masterpiece. The bridge over the Gombás brook is the only Baroque stone bridge with statues in the country.

In the age of Maria Theresa the Meacenas type bishops formed the dominant look of the city, with abundantly decorated Baroque churches and palaces. Besides the Dominican and Franciscan churches, the Catholic parish-church, the bishop’s palace and the Townhall there is a special Baroque monument in the city, the Triumphal Arch, a single gate made of stone, which was erected on the occasion of Maria Theresa’s visit of 1764; it is the only architectural monument of this sort in Hungary. The monumental episcopal cathedral of Vác is a valuable memento of the late Baroque, its frescos and main altar-piece are the creations of F. A. Maulbertsch the outstanding painter of Austrian Baroque.

Making a little detour, you can visit the beautiful botanical garden of Vácrátót which was founded in the second half of the 19th century and has more than 5000 different species of plaints.