Festivals and events
In reality Budapest is itself a kind of year-round festival, a lively city where traditional values are combined with all the sophistication of a modern metropolis. Even if you don’t intend to, you’re bound to bump into a gastro- and sports event, open-air concert or festival. Be there!
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1 The Sziget Festival in August
The biggest adventure of your life. -
2 Museum of Fine Arts
From Botticelli til Tizian -
3 20th August
The nation’s biggest feast day. -
4 Authentic Hungarian traditions
Any day you like. -
5 Morning concerts
At the old music academy
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Museums' May Day
“The Museums summering is a huge turnout, it is a great scream to look around in the garden of the National Museum in May ... Details
Non-stop party at the Sziget
Concert at the Sziget
“Not for the faint-hearted: Sziget Festival is almost a full week of hard partying on an island on the Danube.” (Gareth ... Details
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Morning concerts at the old music academy
The first purpose-built home of higher music education in Budapest was completed in 1879. Its founder, Franz Liszt, also had his home here, and this is now a lovely museum. This is ... Details
The Palace of the Arts – the secret of the Bartók Hall
The Bartók Hall in the new Palace of the Arts complex can seat 1,800 people, and the acoustics are so good that – in the words of Zoltán Kocsis, music director of the resident ... Details
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