Due to its nice beaches, mountains, and forests, the village was nicknamed "The marble of the Danube Bend".

In the records of the monastery of Saint Martin at Pannonhalma, Zebegény is noted as officially founded in the Esztergom archdiocese.

During the 18th century, the Crown recruited German farmers to populate the areas decimated by the Ottomans and restore farming along the Danube.

Since the Hungarian economic transition period in the late twentieth century, the village has its own municipality.

Due to its extraordinary landscape, healthy, clean air and its historic houses, the town is a favourite week-end retreat among the Budapesters.

Zebegény lies in a magnificent natural environment: It is at the border of the Danube, under the Börzsöny hills.

Within a short walk distance (around 5 km from the main square) there are three caves above the village of Zebegény that were inhabited by monks in the medieval ages.