History of Hungary’s Holy Crown
There is no other nation in the world, who would keep in such a high reverence, have such a high respect for, love with such a mystical adoration their national relic, as the Hungarians do with their crown, the Hungarian Holy Crown. There is no other nation to be found, whose national relic’s source, origin and age are so much unanswered, surrounded with such a mystery, and went through such fantastic adventures as did the crown of the Hungarians.
Holy Right Hand of King Saint Stephen in the Basilica of Budapest
The Holy Right Hand is housed in the St. Stephen Basilica in Budapest, and once a year, on 20th August is carried in the Holy Right Hand procession. The death of king St Stephen was followed by a turbulent period characterized by struggles for the throne. The chapter of the coronation and burial town of the Hungarian […]
Korda Studios and Filmpark
Offering a new experience for film lovers, the Korda Filmpark is the first movie-themed visitors center in Central-Eastern Europe, located 30 kilometers from Budapest, in Etyek. The Filmpark can be found amongst the stages and backlot sets of Korda Studios, where international feature films such as Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, Season of the Witch, […]
Szentendre’s Skanzen
The pretty small town of Szentendre is a great one day trip from Budapest. Right by the town locates the Szentedre Skanzen, an open air museum, the largest ethnographic collection in Hungary. The Hungarian Skanzen in Szentendre was founded in 1967 after years of preparation by ethnographers, as the “Village Museum Department” of the Budapest Ethnographical […]
Memento Park Budapest
A quote by the architect on the project of Memento Park Budapest: “This park is about dictatorship. And at the same time, because it can be talked about, described, built, this park is about democracy. After all, only democracy is able to give the opportunity to let us think freely about dictatorship.”
Szentendre – The pearl of the Danube bend
Szentendre lies at the gate of one of Hungary’s most beautiful regions, the Danube bend, which is on the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage. It’s extraordinary not only because of its architectural harmony but its amazingly beautiful surroundings as well. The typical Baroque-style houses, romantic cobbled-road squares, streets and alleyways create a unique, magical […]
The castle of Queen Sissi in Hungary – Gödöllo’s Grassalkovich Castle
The Gödöllö Palace is one of the most important, and largest monuments of Hungarian palace architecture. Its builder, Count Antal Grassalkovich I (1694–1771) was a typical figure of the regrouping Hungarian aristocracy of the 18th century. He was a Royal Septemvir, president of the Hungarian Chamber, and confidant of Empress Maria Theresa. (1740–1780). The construction of the […]
Etyek wine region of Hungary
Etyek is one of Hungary’s newer wine regions, although the fame of wines grown on the slopes of the Buda Mountains goes back to medieval times. During the reign of the late Arpad Dynasty in the 13th century, wine provided the citizens of Buda with their main source of income. In the wake of the […]
Swimming in snowfall – the Saint Luke’s bath of Budapest
Have you ever swimmed in a pool, while snowflakes were falling out of the sky? When you are in Budapest at wintertime, do not miss the feeling in one of the historical bathes of the city. Saint Luke’s Bath is not the most well-known of Budapest’s many bath houses, with tourist the Széchenyi and the Gellért […]
Rooftop Bars in Budapest
Budapest nightlife scene is even more vibran,t than you could imagine. The city’s already legendary ruin pubs as the hippest venues to be drinking currently have a stiff competition, the rooftop bars. Inevitable 360 bar– on the top of Alexandra Bookstore on Andrassy avenue – is the most famous and favored one, but Gozsdu Sky Terrace, Corvinteto, Design […]
The largest thermal bath of Europe – Széchenyi bath Budapest
The Széchenyi Bath is largest the thermal spring bath complex not only in Budapest, in but whole Europe as well. It’s also the first thermal bath of Pest. The bath owes its existence to Vilmos Zsigmondy, a Hungarian mining engineer; on his initiative, successful deep borings had been performed in the City Park, where later, in […]
The ‘green column bath’ of Budapest – Rudas Thermal baths
The beautiful building of Rudas bath made a name in the world of Hollywood movies as well, in 1988 the bath was used as a shooting place for the action movie Red Heat, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Belushi, and in 2012 for some sceneries of the Borgias with Jeremy Irons. Rudas Bath’s Turkish-style bathhouse […]
A bath whithout hot spring, Kiraly bath Budapest
Király Bath is the only thermal bath of Budapest, which was not built over a hot spring. Moreover, the only bath, which was really built by Turks. A widespread belief, that bathing culture arrived with the Ottoman Reign to Hungary, though thermal baths existed far more before, already in the Roman times, and later also […]
