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Fisherman’s Bastion in Budapest is one of the top Budapest attractions without a doubt. The present day lovely lookout towers / decorative fortification of Fisherman’s Bastion were built in the 19th century to serve as a lookout tower for the best panoramic views in Budapest, Hungary. Needless to say, there used to be real castle walls where now you can take fantastic photos from, but the present day structure has never served as an actual fortification in Buda.
How many unique plant species does it take to beat the world record?
A committee has announced the seven most endangered heritage sites in Europe in an attempt to raise awareness of the potential loss to European culture.
Horseshow on the Hungarian puszta,
Budapest
The 1000 years old monastery of Panninhalma. The first Benedictine monks settled here in 996. They went on to convert the Hungarians, to found the country's first school and, in 1055, to write the first document in Hungarian. From the time of its founding, this monastic community has promoted culture throughout central Europe. Its 1,000-year history can be seen in the succession of architectural styles of the monastic buildings (the oldest dating from 1224), which still today house a school and the monastic community.
A museum post office offering traditional and modern postal services opened on Wednesday in Hollókő in an environment worthy of the World Heritage site, offering a glimpse into the 157-year history of Magyar Posta (Hungarian Post).
The new building has the atmosphere of a small 19th century post office, with museum measuring instruments, a post office warehouse from a hundred years ago, a rest garden, a telephone exchange, and postal scenes from the radio cabaret, which can be heard on the telephone set.
Barnabás Balczó, President and CEO of Magyar Posta, stressed at the opening ceremony that Hollókő is not an open-air museum, but a living settlement, and they want the museum post office to be a living service center, offering traditional and modern services to both locals and visitors in a way that is in keeping with the World Heritage environment.
Vajdahunyad Castle,
Although the Vajdahunyad Castle in the City Park may look like a historical building telling eerie tales, dating back to the medieval times, the Budapest Vajdahunyad Castle was in fact built over a 100 years ago for the 1000th birthday of the Hungarian State in 1896 for the Millennial Exhibition, along with such Budapest attractions as the Millennial Monument on Heroes’ Square, or the Fisherman’s Bastion on the Buda Castle Hill. he whole nation was in a feverish preparation to celebrate the 1000th birthday, but, despite all hurried work, the Expo had to be held one year later (Hungarian astronomists set the date of the Magyar Conquest in 895, so the Exhibition was in fact the 1001th birthday).
The original building of the Vajdahunyad Castle (officially called in 1896 the Historical Building Complex, i.e. Tortenelmi Epuletcsoport) was just a temporary structure made of wooden planks and cardboard designs. Even its plain name was descriptive signifying that it is nothing more than a complex of various historical buildings. Ignac Alpar designed the building of Vajdahunyad Var, which is actually the name of an old Hungarian Gothic Castle in Hunyadvar hence Vajda-Hunyadvar (Hunyadvar was part of Austria-Hungary before 1919, now found in Romania).
The name ‘Vajdahunyad Castle’ was not meant to stand for the whole building, but it was used so frequently by local residents – based on the most striking part of the complex – that the name Vajdahunyad Var eventually stayed with it.
During the Budapest Influencer Trip, as part of a spring campaign, 50 foreign influencers will promote the capital on Instagram and TikTok.
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Budapest, the magnificent Parlamenrt building
https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2684
Experts from East Africa gathered in Nairobi for a workshop to discuss current challenges posed at the World Heritage sites in danger in Kenya, Madagascar, and Tanzania. Africa, despite its rich and diverse ...
Easter Sunday 2023 Hollóko
Hungary's Easter traditions
Renowned the world over as a country steeped in tradition, Hungary celebrates Easter weekend in style with delicious food and family gatherings. Easter, or “Húsvét” as it’s known in Hungarian, is one of the most important cultural and Christian traditions celebrated in the country.
Renowned the world over as a country steeped in tradition, Hungary celebrates Easter weekend in style with delicious food and family gatherings.
Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Monday are marked as public holidays in Hungary and the nation has much planned for the weekend.
On Easter Monday, the age-old tradition of “locsolkodás” sees boys and men reciting poems for women and girls then “sprinkling” them with perfume. The tradition is sometimes observed in more dramatic ways with boys chasing after girls with buckets of water!
Painted eggs are also part of Easter tradition in Hungary. Eggs are painted red to symbolize the blood of Christ and other colors are added to produce a more creative design.
As in most Christian countries around the world, the Easter Bunny brings chocolate eggs for the children and hides them around the house and garden. The fun ensues when the children wake up and go hunting for the eggs.
https://theconversation.com/easter-2024-in-the-holy-land-a-holiday-marked-by-palestinian-christian-sorrow-225965
Easter 2024 in the Holy Land: a holiday marked by Palestinian Christian sorrow
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/474/
The cultural landscape of the Hortobágy Puszta consists of a vast area of plains and wetlands in eastern Hungary. Traditional forms of land use, such as the grazing of domestic animals, have been present in ...
Buda Castle Garden Bazaar
The Buda Castle Garden Bazaar may suggest a collection of shops or some kind of market of the Royal Palace, but it has never been one, only in its name. In fact, the Bazaar could be more properly called a Cultural Palace with an Ornamental Garden south of the Buda Castle, covering the slopes and offering a beautiful entrance to the royal complex from the riverbank by the Danube. The garden and its buildings were built in the late 19th century (1875 – 1883) based on the plans of one of Hungary’s leading architects Miklos Ybl. Yb also designed other top Budapest attractions like the Renaissance Revival features of the originally Classicist St Stephen’s Basilica, the Corvinus University along the river Danube (right next to the Budapest Great Market Hall), the Hungarian Opera House on Andrassy Avenue, and a dozen more palaces all over Budapest.
Between WW2 and the 1980s the Buda Castle Garden Bazaar was turned into a youth centre called the Youth Park to offer a controlled and decent entertainment venue for the youth of Hungary, who were to be raised with Communist values (but the youth decided otherwise, especially in 1968 in the year of the Prague Spring).
Until 1984 the Buda Castle Garden Bazaar functioned as an open air disco and concert venue, a hallmark of the communist era.
Today it is more like an art venue for exhibitions, concerts, dance shows, guided tours, film screenings in its cinema, as well as featuring a lovely flower garden and park suitable for proposals and weddings.
Budapest 😍🥰😍🥰
Hollókő (Hungarian: [ˈholloːkøː]) is a village in northern Hungary, located in Nógrád County. The village, which was constructed in the 13th century and developed in the 18th and 19th centuries, is a well-preserved ethnographic village of the Palóc people, with traditional wooden architecture and layout of buildings, farms, and orchards.[1] Because of its exceptional preservation and testimony to rural life before the arrival of modern farming practices, the village was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. Its name means "Raven-stone" in Hungarian.Hollókő (Hungarian: [ˈholloːkøː]) is a village in northern Hungary, located in Nógrád County. The village, which was constructed in the 13th century and developed in the 18th and 19th centuries, is a well-preserved ethnographic village of the Palóc people, with traditional wooden architecture and layout of buildings, farms, and orchards. Because of its exceptional preservation and testimony to rural life before the arrival of modern farming practices, the village was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. Its name means "Raven-stone" in Hungarian.
Walking on Fishermen Bastin Budapest
https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2610
The 45th session of the World Heritage Committee concluded on Monday 25 September in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This year, the Committee inscribed 42 new sites and approved the extension of 5 sites on UNESCO's World ...
https://hungarytoday.hu/traditional-buso-walking-starts-today-in-mohacs/
The six-day Busó-walking (Busójárás) in Mohács kicks off with a carnival parade, children's folk dance groups and performances by busó groups today.
UN body says years of development have caused ‘irreversible loss’ to historic value of Victorian docks
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