Situated 45 miles to the south of Budapest of the banks of the Danube, on the Pentele plateau ,  Dunaujvaros is the first  "planned" town in Hungary. Originally designed an industry colony of 20-25,000 inhabitants, the number of residents amounted to 50,000 in 1968, 18 years after the building of the town started. Situated in fine surroundings within easy reach of the capital, Dunaujavaros is often visited by tourists for both the huge plants and the hygienic conditions of the young town which represents worthwhile industrial development, town planning, and social and cultural policy in socialist Hungary. 

The chapter "From Intercisa to Dunaujvaros " deals with unique relics that have been unearthed 
during the building of the town. A "cultural layer", which at some places is five meters thick, shows the life, customs and culture of the people who settled on the Pentele plateau in the Bronze Age and the Roman times, of Celts, Huns, Teutons, Avars and of the conquering Magyars and other tribes in the 10th century -through four thousand years. Excavated on the south part of the town , outstanding and highly interesting relics came to light in the urn cemetery that dates back to the Bronze Age, and on the site where once the Roman fortress Intercisa stood; the latter was a very important section of the system of fortresses along the Danube, the Limes of the Roman province Pannonia. The chapter also contains some episodes that  occurred when the building of the town was started, during the years that might be called the "heroic age" of Dunaujavaros. 

In the "The protean street", the town planned and built on ploughed land is described. Besides modern, cultured homes, the principles of town and the variety of architectural styles  -  which was so characteristic of Hungary in the past decades - is demonstrated. 

The Dunai Vasmu (Duna Iron Works), the most important siderurgical works in Hungary, whose 
products are known all over Europe, is dealt with and a survey is given on the industry of  
Dunaujvaros in the chapter entitled "Week -days in a forest of chimney-stacks". The large factory  
supplies the economy of the country with large quantities of coke-oven coke, pig irons, steel rolled 
steel structures refractories, chemicals and machinery of an overall production value exceeding five 
and a half  thousand million forints per annum.  

In addition to the iron and steel production, there are also other important industries in Dunaujavaros. 
For example the local building trade worked out experimentally and employed in practice, for the  
first time in Hungary, the serial production and assembly of prefabricated family houses that can be  
set up in 36 hours was also started there. 

The light industry of Dunaujvaros takes righteously pride in the modern straw pulp and paper factory; produced from the cornstraw of Mezofold, a considerable part of the 22,000 tons of cellulose turned out there annually is used for paper manufacturing on the spot. 

In addition to the above mentioned plants there is an important textile factory in Dunaujvaros besides a number of local industries which are useful to the economy of the country and serve the interest of the people from the neighborhood and of the town at the same time. 

In the chapter "The town of youth", the children's welfare amenities are describes; it is interesting to note that the average age of the inhabitants of Dunaujvaros thirty years.  The reader is familiarized with the maternity home where some 1,500 children are born every year, infants' nurseries, kindergartens, schools and workers' hotels where mainly young workmen find a home. 

The chapter " The second eight hours" deals with the role of culture, education, entertainment and sports in the life of Dunaujvaros.  "Guides - high and low " is the title of the last chapter that will give an idea on the hospitality tourists to Dunaujvaros have never yet been disappointed in their expectations. 
Stalinvaros  is called Dunaujvaros since 1961. The Danube Ironworks complex was taken over by Dunaferr Joint-Stock Company and still one of the   most important industrial complexes in Hungary.  Next