National Nature Reserve

The floodplain forests and the swampy, marshy areas of the Danube (Hungarian: Duna) spread on the left bank of the river from Bratislava (Pozsony) as far as Zlatná na Ostrove (Csallóközaranyos), to the Veľkolélsky ostrov Island (Nagyléli sziget) belonging to the latter, and they form the protected areas of the Danube floodplain. This region is famous for its rare, protected bird life. The area of the marshland in the Rye Island (Hungarian: Csallóköz, Slovak: Žitný ostrov) was designated as a Ramsar site in 1993, which provides an international rank for it, and in 1998, it became one of the...