Godollo

Godollo is a town in Pest county, Budapest metropolitan region, Hungary, about 30 km northeast from the outskirts of Budapest. Its populace is 34,396 in keeping with the 2010 census and is growing unexpectedly. It may be effortlessly reached from Budapest with the suburban railway. Godollo is home to the Szent Istvan University, the primary schooling institute of agriculture in Hungary. The palace at Godollo changed into at the beginning built for the aristocratic Grassalkovich family; later Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary and his wife Elisabeth had their summer residence right here.

Communism noticed a lot of the city's unique one-storey housing levelled to make way for the blocks of apartments which keep to dominate the city centre, as well as much of the Royal Forest and Elisabeth's Park levelled for business use. The earliest to be had written statistics at the property rights in Godollo date from the early 14th century. At that point, Godollo turned into separated from the community of Besnyo which had a bigger populace. The agreement changed into then owned via families of the lesser nobility. By the middle of the fifteenth century, Godollo advanced into a village.