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While Hungary is a landlocked country,Hungary can enjoy the largest lake in central Europe. Affectionately called by Hungarian the “Hungarian Sea”.
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The week-long festival has grown from a relatively low-profile 1993 student event to become one of the definitive European rock festivals by the late 1990s
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Martin Munkácsi (born Kolozsvar, Austro-Hungary, May 18, 1896, died July 13, 1963, New York, NY) was a Hungarian photographer who worked in Germany (1928-34) and the United States.
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Gresham Palace or Gresham-palota, located in Budapest, Hungary, is an example of Art Nouveau architecture in Central Europe.
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The history of Herend porcelain goes back over two hundred years, and over that time the factory has produced some 12,000 different types of handmade objects and ornaments.
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The Széchenyi Medicinal Bath in Budapest (Széchenyi-gyógyfürdő) is the largest medicinal bath in Europe.
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As of January 2009, 350 million cubes have sold worldwide making it the world’s top-selling puzzle game.
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The Cave Bath is a thermal bath in a natural cave in Miskolctapolca, which is part of the city of Miskolc, Hungary, and is unique in Europe.
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Ferenc Pavlics is a Hungarian mechanical engineer, developer for NASA Apollo Lunar rover.
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Leó Szilárd (Hungarian: Szilárd Leó, February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian physicist who conceived the nuclear chain reaction and worked on the Manhattan Project. He was born in Budapest in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and died inLa Jolla, California. Szilárd first attempted to create a chain reaction using beryllium and indium, but these elements did not produce a chain reaction. During 1936, he [...]
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The Great Synagogue, also known as Dohány Street Synagogue (Hungarian: Dohány utcai Zsinagóga/Nagy Zsinagóga, Hebrew: בית הכנסת הגדול של בודפשט bet hakneset hagadol šel budapešt) or Tabakgasse Synagogue, is located in Erzsébetváros, the 7th district of Budapest. It is the largest synagogue in Eurasia and the second largest in the world, after the Temple Emanu-El. [...]
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The Busójárás (Hungarian, meaning “Busó-walking”; in Croatian: Pohod bušara) is an annual celebration of the Šokci (Croats) living in the town of Mohács, Hungary, held at the end of the Carnival season (“Farsang”), ending the day before Ash Wednesday. The celebration features Busós (people wearing traditional masks) and includes folk music, masquerading, parades and dancing. [...]
Read the full articleProbably most of your favourite movie is produced by one Hungarian guy named Andrew Vajna.
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John Charles Polanyi, born in Berlin on January 23 1929, is a Canadian chemist who won a Nobel Prize. He is the son of distinguished Hungarian chemist and philosopher Michael Polanyi, and Magda Elizabeth, and the nephew of influential economist Karl Polanyi. In 1956, John Polanyi was appointed as a Lecturer at the University of Toronto where he was successively [...]
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St. Stephen’s Basilica (Hungarian: Szent István-bazilika) is an ecclesiastic basilica in Budapest, Hungary. It is named in honour of Stephen, the first King of Hungary (c 975–1038), whose mummified fist is housed in the reliquary.
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The Museum of Applied Arts is a museum in Budapest, Hungary. This Art Nouveau building was built between 1893 and 1896 to the plans of Ödön Lechner and Gyula Pártos. It is one of the most characteristic and most representative forms of Lechner’s Hungarian architectural style, first of all appearing in the Hungarian folk ceramics, [...]
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