How We See the Finns? - Finland: A Hungarian Perspective. Exhibition in the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest.

The clown is on the road. Our protagonist arrives with a large bag to the ring of the Capital Circus of Budapest and he changes to a clown's costume for the beginning of the show. He guides our audience through the performance dominated by joy, courage and love.

On the 7 weekends of the festival a photo exhibition linked to cultural life in Budapest can be seen on the north side of the Chain Bridge.

It is the 19th time this year that the BudaFest Festival will be organzied on Budapest's two exclusive locations, a festival which has grown out to be the most successful and popular summer cultural event of our capital.

With a history stretching back several decades, the Szentendre Summer Festival is a series of general art events. Streets, squares, churches, gardens and courtyards all provide venues for theatre performances, concerts, films, exhibitions, traditional and children's events in this atmospheric little town. The series of events take place between ...

World music at the Chain Bridge. Balkan, Gypsy, Oriental and Latin melodies and jazz encounter Hungarian folk music. The leading representatives and ensembles of world music in Hungary will appear during these two days.

Pop music at the Chain Bridge. On the first weekend in August representatives of the most popular light music trends create a real party atmosphere and do their best to get everyone on their feet dancing.

The Sziget Festival is one of the biggest cultural and music festivals in Europe. The festival is held annually in August in Budapest, Hungary and takes place on Óbudai-sziget ("Old-Buda Island"), a leafy  island of 108 hectares on the Danube, thus Sziget stands for Island. The week-long party, concert-, and fun-packed that is the ...

This Festival started in 1987 and was called Small Danube Folkmusic and Folkdance Festival. The participient groups came from the villages alonge the Small Danube. During the years the Festival growe into an International Folklorfestival and that is whay its name had to be changed. The name of the festival is Summerfest International ...

Folk music at the Chain Bridge. We take our leave of the festival public with emblematic figures of the Hungarian folk music scene and the dance house movement.

This large-scale festival is put on for the public every year on 20th August. There is an exhibition of Hungarian crafts, a water and an air parade, and a firework display. This day is also a national holiday in honour of Saint Stephen (King István I.), founder of the state of Hungary, as well as the festival of the new bread.In Budapest the ...

Every year this late-August to late-September festival is received with increasing enthusiasm. Its aim is to present Jewish culture, as part of the universal culture, through the performances of world-famous Jewish artists, as well as of young talents. The Jewish Summer Festival was launched in 1997 by the Jewish Community of Budapest (Budapesti ...

Grape Harvest Crowd in the Hungarian Open Air Museum. During the two-day festival visitors may stomp the grapes, the must is pouring from under the press and the best wines of the Hungarian wine regions? family cellars? can be tasted or bought. Anybody may join the making of scarecrows and noisemakers of vineyards and orchards. The jocular ...

The cream of Hungarian viticulture is presented at the Budapest International Wine and Sparkling Wine (Pezsgő) Festival held in Buda Castle, in the first half of September. The fair is accompanied by numerous other 'winey' and musical events, as well as others which preserve traditions.The main location of the Budapest International Wine ...

The story of the first festival of the Hungarian capital dates back to 1958 when Philharmonia organised a ”Bartók Festival” at the beginning of the autumn concert season. The list of participants was quite fascinating: Yehudi Menuhin, Svyatoslav Richter, the Juilliard String Quartet, János Ferencsik, Annie Fischer… Based on the great ...

Eleftheria Arvanitaki concert in the Bartók Béla National Concert Hall. Today, Eleftheria Arvanitaki has perhaps the best known Greek voice in the world. Her charismatic personality has not just conquered international concert halls: she has been one of the most loved singers in her native country since the eighties. Her concerts offer a unique ...

Visitors to the Budapest Autumn Festival can expect varied and colourful events, bizarre venues and internationally renowned performers. Live art brings the city to life - to summarise the mission of the Budapest Autumn Festival. The festival has been held in the capital every October since 1992. The aim of the organisers is to put together a ...

4th Barka International Theater Festival in Budapest.

Saint Martin New Wine Festival and Goose-feast in the Skanzen (open-air museum) in Szentendre for everyone who likes good wine and tasty food in a special environment. In Hungary more and more people are celebrating Saint Martin's Day with new wine and goose. One of the most prosperous Saint Martin's Day events of the country is the New Wine ...

The Budapest Christmas Market is amongst the best ten Christmas markets in Europe. The spectacular fair takes place every year from the end of November till the end of December in the heart of the city, in Vörösmarty Square. At the fair, folk artisans and craftsmen sell their goods which are handmade in the traditional way from natural and ...