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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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Gresham Palace or Gresham-palota, located in Budapest, Hungary, is an example of Art Nouveau architecture in Central Europe.
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Victor Vasarely, born Hungarian: Vásárhelyi Győző (9 April 1906, Pécs – 15 March 1997, Paris) was a Hungarian French artist
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The Széchenyi Medicinal Bath in Budapest (Széchenyi-gyógyfürdő) is the largest medicinal bath in 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 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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Out of the 11 UNESCO World Heritage site in Hungary, 4 of them are in Budapest itself.
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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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Peter Munk, CC (born November 8, 1927) is a Canadian businessman. He is the chairman and founder of the mining company Barrick Gold, the world’s largest gold-mining corporation.
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Géza Gárdonyi, born Géza Ziegler (August 3, 1863 – October 30, 1922) was a Hungarian writer and journalist. Although he wrote a range of works, he had his greatest success as a historical novelist, particularly with Eclipse of the Crescent Moon and Slave of the Huns. Life Gárdonyi was born in Agárdpuszta, Austria-Hungary, the son [...]
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Sziget 2011 bands got officially confirmed, like LaRoux, Chemical Brothers, Pulp, Skunk Anansie and more: http://szigetnews.com/sziget-2011-lineup/
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Andrea Klára Osvárt (born 25 April 1979) is a Hungarian actress and former fashion model. She was born in Budapest and grew up in Tamási, a small town in the south of Hungary. Her parents divorced when she was five. Her father is a veterinarian. Osvárt attended N.2. Public School in Tamási, Zoltán Kodály’s Italian-Hungarian [...]
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József Törley (January 10, 1858 – July 28, 1907) is credited as having established one of the most successful brands of sparkling wine outside of the champagne region in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the 19th century, production of champagne style sparkling wines became popular in Europe and rapidly spread across the [...]
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Mark your calendar! If you are in Budapest on 26 June, you should not miss the Paint Up! event. During the night, a few Hungarian visual designers will dress up the building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences with architectural lighting. You can see what they did with the Hungarian National Gallery last year:
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Since 1868 a horse tramway ran on schedule from the Lánchíd to Zugliget set in operation by the Budai Közúti Vaspálya Társaság (~ Public Railway Society of Buda). Nikolaus Riggenbach (the designer of the first European cog-wheel train line of Vitznau-Rig opened in 1871) with a colleague of his as the representatives of the Internationale [...]
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Marton Csokas ( born 30 June 1966) is a New Zealand film and television actor. Early life Csokas was born in Invercargill, New Zealand. His mother, a nurse, is of Irish and Danish descent, and his Hungarian-born father, also named Márton Csókás, worked as a mechanical engineer.[1][2][3] Csokas attended King’s College, Auckland, and graduated from [...]
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