691 result(s) for national park
Fungarian: Why Is Halloween Strange For Hungarians?
- 30 Oct 2016 8:10 AM
- community & culture
November 1st is national holiday. According to the Catholic calendar, it’s All Saints’ Day – but Hungarians call it Day of the Dead (Halottak napja), when traditionally it’s a family obligation to tend the graves of their closest relatives.
Lit by thousands of candles, the cemeteries are a melancholic and beautiful sight on this day. The most common flower of the season people put on the graves ...
Seeing Success, Taxify Plans Expansion In Hungary
- 25 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- getting around
Following almost two months of operations in Budapest, Estonia-based transportation company Taxify has requested that the Hungarian National Transport Authority greenlight the company’s plans to double the number of cars it operates in the capital, according to a press release sent to the Budapest Business Journal yesterday.
New Home For Hungarian National Dance Theatre
- 19 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- property
The theatre in Buda’s Millenáris Park will be expanded and rebuilt to host the National Dance Theatre, CEO of the performing arts institution Péter Ertl announced on Tuesday. The dance troupe had to leave its Buda Castle home in 2014 and has performed at various venues since then.
Paprika Day, Ópusztaszer, 15 October
- 14 Oct 2016 5:45 AM
- food & drink
Traditional tools of paprika processing are on view throughout the season at Ópusztaszer Heritage Village, however, on Paprika Day the mobile paprika grinder and the foot-pedaled mortar, the "külü" are actually re-animated. Guests also have an opportunity to make garlands of red peppers themselves.
Contemporary Arts Festival, Now On Until 23 October
- 14 Oct 2016 5:35 AM
- community & culture
The CAFe Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival presents some of the greatest contemporary performers from Hungary and abroad, including Yann Tiersen, Hiromi, Plaid and the Southbank Gamelan Players, Squarepusher’s project band, Shobaleader One, Krzysztof Penderecki, Yellowjackets, the FAMILIE FLÖZ and Krisztián Gergye’s Company.
New Wolf Videos Released By WWF Hungary
- 13 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- video
WWF Hungary just released footages from camera traps placed at the Aggtelek National Park, Northern Hungary. The videos show the young wolves that have been followed by the local researcher since their birth. The footage captures the moment when the young wolves are bullied by a wild boar. A few minutes later a heard of wild boars stroll through the area.
Chimney Cake Festival, Vajdahunyad Castle Budapest, 7 - 9 October
- 6 Oct 2016 12:01 PM
- food & drink
The 4th Sekler Cake Festival, or the big Hungarian bake-off, will fill the heart of the city with the fragrance of heavenly 'Sekler cakes' once more this weekend. Chimney Cake, or in Hungarian Kürtős Kalács, is a typical Hungarian pastry, which is baked on a tapered cylindrical spit over an open fire. It originates from Transylvania. The name derives from the Hungarian words kürtő, meaning ...
1956 Memorial Park For ‘Pesti Srácok’ Opens In Budapest
- 26 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A memorial park opened on Friday to honour the young freedom-fighters of Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet revolution, known as “the boys of Pest”. Opening the park at Budapest’s Mihály Horvath square, in the eighth district, Mária Schmidt, co-chair of the memorial committee for the 1956 anniversary, said the goal of the commemorations this year was to “remember and help those remember who had never ...
Civil Orgs Demonstrate To Protect Budapest Trees
- 26 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Several civil organisations held a joint demonstration on Saturday to protest against the cutting of trees as part of Budapest development projects in the City Park, the Orczy Garden and the Római embankment. Budapest’s City Park was the first planned public city park in the world, head of the Town Protection Association for Budapest Mihály Ráday told the event from a stage set up in Heroes ...
Fungarian: Why Is Halloween Strange For Hungarians?
- 30 Oct 2016 8:10 AM
- community & culture
November 1st is national holiday. According to the Catholic calendar, it’s All Saints’ Day – but Hungarians call it Day of the Dead (Halottak napja), when traditionally it’s a family obligation to tend the graves of their closest relatives.
Lit by thousands of candles, the cemeteries are a melancholic and beautiful sight on this day. The most common flower of the season people put on the graves ...
Seeing Success, Taxify Plans Expansion In Hungary
- 25 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- getting around
Following almost two months of operations in Budapest, Estonia-based transportation company Taxify has requested that the Hungarian National Transport Authority greenlight the company’s plans to double the number of cars it operates in the capital, according to a press release sent to the Budapest Business Journal yesterday.
New Home For Hungarian National Dance Theatre
- 19 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- property
The theatre in Buda’s Millenáris Park will be expanded and rebuilt to host the National Dance Theatre, CEO of the performing arts institution Péter Ertl announced on Tuesday. The dance troupe had to leave its Buda Castle home in 2014 and has performed at various venues since then.
Paprika Day, Ópusztaszer, 15 October
- 14 Oct 2016 5:45 AM
- food & drink
Traditional tools of paprika processing are on view throughout the season at Ópusztaszer Heritage Village, however, on Paprika Day the mobile paprika grinder and the foot-pedaled mortar, the "külü" are actually re-animated. Guests also have an opportunity to make garlands of red peppers themselves.
Contemporary Arts Festival, Now On Until 23 October
- 14 Oct 2016 5:35 AM
- community & culture
The CAFe Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival presents some of the greatest contemporary performers from Hungary and abroad, including Yann Tiersen, Hiromi, Plaid and the Southbank Gamelan Players, Squarepusher’s project band, Shobaleader One, Krzysztof Penderecki, Yellowjackets, the FAMILIE FLÖZ and Krisztián Gergye’s Company.
New Wolf Videos Released By WWF Hungary
- 13 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- video
WWF Hungary just released footages from camera traps placed at the Aggtelek National Park, Northern Hungary. The videos show the young wolves that have been followed by the local researcher since their birth. The footage captures the moment when the young wolves are bullied by a wild boar. A few minutes later a heard of wild boars stroll through the area.
Chimney Cake Festival, Vajdahunyad Castle Budapest, 7 - 9 October
- 6 Oct 2016 12:01 PM
- food & drink
The 4th Sekler Cake Festival, or the big Hungarian bake-off, will fill the heart of the city with the fragrance of heavenly 'Sekler cakes' once more this weekend. Chimney Cake, or in Hungarian Kürtős Kalács, is a typical Hungarian pastry, which is baked on a tapered cylindrical spit over an open fire. It originates from Transylvania. The name derives from the Hungarian words kürtő, meaning ...
1956 Memorial Park For ‘Pesti Srácok’ Opens In Budapest
- 26 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A memorial park opened on Friday to honour the young freedom-fighters of Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet revolution, known as “the boys of Pest”. Opening the park at Budapest’s Mihály Horvath square, in the eighth district, Mária Schmidt, co-chair of the memorial committee for the 1956 anniversary, said the goal of the commemorations this year was to “remember and help those remember who had never ...
Civil Orgs Demonstrate To Protect Budapest Trees
- 26 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Several civil organisations held a joint demonstration on Saturday to protest against the cutting of trees as part of Budapest development projects in the City Park, the Orczy Garden and the Római embankment. Budapest’s City Park was the first planned public city park in the world, head of the Town Protection Association for Budapest Mihály Ráday told the event from a stage set up in Heroes ...