Visonta is a village in Heves County, Hungary, along the Bene creek, beneath the Mátra mountain ranges.

The village was the property of the Csobánka family, and was confiscated by King Charles I for infidelity.

The king awarded the village to the Kompolti family, and in 1445 the settlement was already mentioned as a market town.

[1] The construction of the power plant in 1964 was a basic change in the life of the settlement, and the open pit lignite mining started in 1969.

The government ordered a construction ban in the village in the 1970s, to have the settlement left by the inhabitants.