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Toll
The use of the highways in Hungary is a mandatory E-vignette. This is different from vignettes in neighboring countries like Slovenia, Austria, Slovakia and Romania, where you must paste a vignette on the windscreen. In Hungary, one must buy a vignette, in which the license plate is recorded. You must keep the receipt thereof and upon request show. This is automatically enforced with cameras on the ramps. One does not need an additional sticker on the windshield to paste. Cars fall into the class D1 and you can only buy vignettes for four days, weekly, monthly or yearly vignette. The cost of a weekly vignette (10 days) is 6,900 HUF, 11,170 HUF for a monthly vignette and 61,760 HUF for an annual vignette (2026 prices). A weekly vignette therefore costs around ?20 and a monthly vignette just over ?30, depending on the exact exchange rate. More information on Toll . Since 2015 there is also a region vignette. It costs HUF 5000.
Be aware of 2015 the M0 is not completely toll free anymore. A map of toll roads is here.
Which roads are still toll-free:
* M8
* M80
* M9 between junctions 6 and 51
* The M9 near Kaposvár
* M6 near Pécs on the south-western side
* M4 between Vecsés and Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
* M4 between Törökszentmiklós and Kisújszállás
The purchase of a vignette can be made at the border, at petrol stations and customer agencies on some motorways (note the word Matrica). One can also buy the vignette forward all over the Internet (see above URL) or by telephone. When the license plate should be taken to ensure that the intermediate lines are not used in Dutch and behind the badge NL should also be placed (with a space between license plate and NL).
Tolna
Capital: Szekszárd
- One of Hungary's most important wine regions.
- Gentle hills, ideal for wine tours and cycling trips.
Traffic
Hungary has an extensive and well-developed road network. The country is an important link between Western and Central Europe to Southern and Eastern Europe.
The country has a very good highway system which is extended every year. All main roads lead to Budapest except 8. The highways are abbreviated with an M prefix, but called autópálya. Today, the first sections of highways were built out to begin or end in Budapest. A significant improvement was the construction of the bypass around Budapest, the M0. Bacause of this road traffic can travel easily around Budapest. The airport is not far from here. For a comprehensive list of motorways you can look at the following site (in German or English): Motorways and more .
The toll motorways should be paid (except in parts of large cities). See Toll .
Turul
The Turul is a mythological bird. It plays a role in the origin of the Hungarians and Hungary. The bird is probably a large falcon, the word comes from Turkish. It appears twice in the mythology. Once the Hungarians to move to depart from Russia to the current region, another time the Turul conceived Álmos and it is so the basis of the Hungarians.
There is a statue on the hill in Tatabánya (visible from the M1). It is argued that it is maybe the largest bird statue of Europe.