City Walls & Várkerület
Városfal és Várkerület
A horseshoe-shaped boulevard circling the Old Town along its Roman and medieval walls. Wall walks and Baroque townhouses make Sopron's most beautiful walking route.
The outline of Sopron's Inner Town follows the walls of the Roman city of Scarbantia, and in the Middle Ages double walls and bastions were added on top of them. Today the outer side of the walls is a horseshoe-shaped ring road (Várkerület), lined with colorful Baroque and Classicist townhouses, cafés and shops. On the inner side, restored wall paths (Várfalsétány) let you get close to the Roman foundations, round bastions and wall gardens. The Roman Forum ruins on the south side of the square can also be visited. The walls are open all day. A good route is to start at the front gate beneath the Fire Watch Tower and walk half the circuit, which takes about an hour.
Opening hours
All day (city wall walkway open in daytime)
Nearby sights
- Central Mining Museum
- Firewatch Tower
- Old Synagogue
- Storno House
- Fabricius House
- Fő tér (Main Square)
- Goat Church
- White Angel Pharmacy Museum