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Small region-Makád

Small region

Alsónémedi – Apaj – Áporka – Bugyi – Délegyháza – Dömsöd – Dunaharaszti – Dunavarsány – Halásztelek
Kiskunlacháza – Kulcs – Lórév – Majosháza – Makád – Rácalmás – Ráckeve – Szigetbecse – Szigetcsép
Szigethalom – Szigetszentmárton – Szigetszentmiklós – Szigetújfalu – Taksony – Tököl

Makád

Makád is the last town on the southern side of Csepel Island. It’s 50 km from Budapest and 10 km from Ráckeve to the south. To the west there is the main Danube branch, to the east there is the Ráckeve Danube branch and to the north Szigetbecse and Lórév. You can reach it from the M0 highway through Szigetszentmiklós or Csepel.  Makád can be reached from Budapest using the suburban train to Ráckeve and then connecting to a bus service to Makád.

Makád Local Government: Kossuth L. str. 52. 2332 Makád
Tel.: (24) 482-096, Fax: (24) 482-006

This isolated and aquatic environment has influenced the village in many ways. Not many historical artifacts have been found in the area of Makád. Some Hun and Avar artifacts have been found, confirming that this area had been occupied before. In the Árpád era it was called Makófalva. The first document was created in 1430 when two villages located in this area: Gyála and Simonfa. Under the Turkish rule, this place was the property of the sultan. They used the medieval Catholic church for services.
Visitors to the village can wander in the big forest and by the fishponds. The old cemetery has some traditional wooden headboards and in the new cemetery there is a wooden headboard decorated with rune writing as a tribute to the Hungarian martyr ministers of 1848-49.
Turi József the orientalist (1861-1906), a member of the Hungarian Scientific Academy, was born in Makád. The local school was named after him where there is an exhibition of him.

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