Balatonvilágos is the easternmost settlement on the southern shore of Lake Balaton. At the joining of three counties it borders on the city of Siófok (county of Somogy), the city of Enying (county of Fejér) and the town of Balatonfőkajár (county of Veszprém). The official name of the settlement is Balatonvilágos that also encompasses Balatonaliga.

Balatonvilágos became independent on March 1, 1961; before that date it was part of Balatonfőkajár. The new town was formed of Balatonaliga, Balatonvilágos, Petőfi farm, and Mathias colony. Its name is characteristic: Aliga got its name from an assumedly existing pub, while Világos (meaning light) was named for the light colouring of the soil. Balatonvilágos by the name of Világos major (farm) appeared first in a survey map of 1857. The Cholnoky atlas marks Balatonvilágos as an independent settlement in 1927.

Following the building of the southern railway in 1863, in the early years of the 20^th century the surveying of the shores of Balaton, the bank-up of the shore, and the development of the holiday settlements began. At the turn of the century there were two railway stations: Balatonaliga and Balatonvilágos, later Gamásza was added as a conditional stop. On the Alsótelep (lower colony) there were 12 buildings, one hotel, and one inn. The hotel in Aliga was built at that time. In ten years the Klára-telep (Clara colony) on Rákóczy street was occupied by the larger houses of the wealthier vacationers, well-to-do citizens, and public officeholders, while the Alsó-telep (lower colony) on Zrinyi street saw the construction of the smaller houses of the less wealthy teachers, railroad men, and engineers.

On the upper colony of Világos 5-6 families lived year around, the same was true on the Aliga side. The vacationing community of the colony was rapidly unified. In order to make their surroundings more comfortable and beautiful, all were “lobbying” wherever they could, and the leaders of Balatonfőkajár, the “mother town”, watched with sympathy and supported the effort of the vacationers.

The Balatoni Yacht Club (BYC) formed in 1912 was the first civic association that acomplished much in the development of the sport of sailing on the Balaton. The first sailing regatta for ladies was organised here.

On the request of the BYC the Hungarian Royal Ministry of Agriculture in 1913 promised the building of a port. It was only after the second world war that the port was built, but not for the sake and use of the vacationing community.

The Balaton Alliance considered the application of Aliga and Világos for independence at the Balatonfüred meeting in December, 1929 that was accepted in 1936 by Kálmán Darányi, Secretary of Agriculture, based on the XVI law of 1929. The settlement administratively belonged to Balatonfőkajár.

In the thirties a healthy relationship and cooperation developed between the locals and the holiday home owners that resulted in the rapid growth of the settlement. Later the growth abated, and to the end of the sixties it remained unchanged.

From the end of the sixties, following the economic policy of those times, the large-scale development of holiday lots began, later the Petőfi agricultural cooperative marked off lots for the homes of its members.

In the seventies, due to large land developments, the town experienced rapid advancement mostly by sale of holiday lots with the collaboration of the OTP bank. Following the change of the political regime the area of the current Club Aliga was opened up ensuring a civilized, well supplied beach and sailing port for the use of the community.

At present over 400 families live here, but in the summer many thousands spend their holdiay in our community. The basin of the lake is sandy here, the quality of the water is excellent, the water is shallow, so for several hundred meters even non-swimmers can safely enjoy the water.

The most beautiful view is from the Panorama lookout, where the painters Géza Mészöly and István Csók received inspiration for their paintings of  Lake Balaton.