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Out of the 11 UNESCO World Heritage site in Hungary, 4 of them are in Budapest itself.
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The Hungarian Revolution of 1848 was one of many revolutions that year and closely linked to other revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas.
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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 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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The so called “Füvészkert” in Budapest is the oldest botanical garden of Hungary, the official name of which is ELTE Botanical Garden.
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Hungarian wine has a history dating back to at least Roman times. The best-known wines are the white dessert wine Tokay (Tokaji) and Bull’s Blood (Egri Bikavér), a full-bodied red wine.
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The biggest GOA party in Hungary at every August. Check otu the officinal website for the program and locatio info here: http://ozorafestival.eu/
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Zsolnay, or formally Zsolnay Porcelánmanufaktúra Zrt (Zsolnay Porcelain Manufacture) is a Hungarian manufacturer of porcelain, pottery, ceramics, tiles, and stoneware. The company introduced the eosin glazing process and pyrogranite ceramics. The Zsolnay factory was established by Miklós Zsolnay (1800 – 1880) in Pécs, Hungary, to produce stoneware and ceramics in 1853. In 1863, his son, [...]
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..that the Madagascar city, Louisbourg was built by a Hungarian?
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Fisherman’s Soup or halászlé (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈhɒlaːsleː]; ) is a hot, spicy paprika-based river fish soup, originating as a dish of Hungarian cuisine, a bright red hot soup prepared with generous amounts of hot paprika and carp or mixed river fish, characteristic for the cuisines of the Pannonian Plain, particularly prepared in the Danube and [...]
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Gene Simmons (born August 25, 1949) is an Hungarian rock bassist, singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and businessman. Known as “The Demon,” he is the bassist of Kiss, a hard rock band he co-founded in the early 1970s. Simmons became involved with his first band, Lynx, then renamed The Missing Links, when he was a teenager. [...]
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Mariska Hargitay (pronounced /məˈrɪʃkə ˈhɑrɡɨteɪ/ mə-RISH-kə HAR-gi-tay; born Mariska Magdolna Hargitay; January 23, 1964) is an American actress. She is the daughter of late actor and professional bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay and late actress Jayne Mansfield. After winning the Miss Beverly Hills 1982 beauty pageant, she went on to study theater at UCLA and started acting [...]
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Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886 — April 10, 1962) was a Hungarian-American film director. He had early credits as Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész. He directed more than fifty films in Europe and more than one hundred in the United States. The best-known were The Adventures of Robin Hood, Angels with Dirty Faces, Casablanca, Yankee [...]
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Eclipse of the Crescent Moon (Hungarian: Egri csillagok) is a historical novel by the Hungarian writer Géza Gárdonyi. It was first published in 1899 and is one of the most popular novels in Hungary. The story is set in the first half of the 16th century and covers a period of roughly 25 years. The [...]
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The Paul Street Boys (Hungarian: A Pál utcai fiúk) is a youth novel by the Hungarian writer Ferenc Molnár (in Hungarian: Molnár Ferenc), first published in 1906. Plot outline The novel is about schoolboys in the rapidly developing Budapest at the turn of the 20th century, who defend their playground, the “grund”, from the “redshirts”, [...]
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