National Holiday Celebrations, Budapest, 15 March

The Hungarian Revolution of 1848 grew into a war for independence from Habsburg rule. Now a national holiday, next Tuesday many 15 March programs in Budapest offer expats the chance to celebrate together with locals. Read on for details of what’s on in Pest and across the Danube, and in Buda in the castle and [...]

WHO Welcomes A Smoke-Free Hungary

Recently a group of MPs in the Hungarian Parliament, with government support, submitted a motion for legislation that would make public places, restaurants, bars and workplaces in Hungary smoke-free. Debate on this proposal has already started in Parliament. The World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe welcomes this initiative, read on for more details and [...]

Elvis Presley to be named honorary citizen of Budapest

The King is to be awarded posthumous citizenship and a landmark in Hungary’s capital for supporting the 1956 uprising. A little belatedly, Elvis Presley is to become an official citizen of Budapest. The Hungarian capital has announced plans to commemorate the singer, who has been dead for 34 years, with both an honorary citizenship and [...]

Hungarian Cabinet Approves Home Births

The cabinet yesterday issued a decree allowing women to give birth at home with the assistance of a midwife or obstetrician under certain conditions. The decree applying to births after May 1 stipulates that pregnant women aged 18-40 may choose where they prefer to deliver their babies, so long as neither the baby’s nor the [...]

Xpat Interview: Balázs Zságer (Zagar)

He is the leader of the band called Žagar wich is one of the most popular groups of the Hungarian electronic music scene now. Before he was the keyboard player of Yonderboi. With Yonderboi and his band he played all over Europe from Moscow to Amsterdam. He is the author of the remarkable track Wings [...]

New Bells For Matthias Church Budapest Cost Ft 180 Million

Two new bells were hoisted by a crane into the belfry of Mátyás Church in Buda Castle on Wednesday. They are two of four bells to be made for the church by the Perner company of Passau, Germany at a cost of Ft 180 million. The church obtained Ft 86 million from the Norwegian Fund, [...]

West Balkan NightClub Closed For Good

Latest news: info on the West Balkan website indicates the club has closed for good. If the club continued it could “hurt the mourning of parents, friends, family members and all well-wishing people,” the club website announced. “The Sixth District notary Csilla Sajtos had made an official note to close West Balkan after carrying out [...]

ZAGAR 10th Anniversary Concert @ Trafó

You can’t get on the Budapest subway without hearing the track Bossa Astoria playing in our minds our head down to the Balaton without listening to Eastern Sugar or go to a festival without witnessing the audio-visual orgy that is Zagar. (2011.02.12, 20:00, @ TRAFÓ ) Balázs Zságer, leader of the band Zagar isn’t a [...]

Introducing Budapest by LonelyPlanet

Straddling the romantic Danube River, with the Buda Hills to the west and the start of the Great Plain to the east, Budapest is the most beautiful city in central Europe. And the human legacy is just as remarkable as Mother Nature’s. Architecturally, Budapest is a gem, with enough baroque, neoclassical, Eclectic and art nouveau [...]

TÁP Színház presents ’ETCHNO’ @ Szikra Cool Tour House

Well, first of all, if you haven’t been to Szikra Cool Tour House, which is the new hip club in town, just immediately make up for it. Second of all, you have a special chance to watch ’Etchno’, a critically acclaimed work of the actor/director Vajdai Vilmos and TÁP Theatre Company featuring with Dj Bootsie. [...]

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