The 26th Hungarian Real Estate Development Award celebrated the finest developments of 2024, with the Liget Budapest Project winning its top prize. Recognizing projects across 12 categories, the competition highlighted innovation, sustainability, and cultural heritage.
The Liget Budapest Project has made history by winning three awards at the prestigious International Travel Awards in Dubai. Recognized as the World’s Best Tourism Development and Europe’s Best Family-Friendly Development, the project also saw the House of Music Hungary named Europe’s Most Attractive Tourist Attraction, affirming Hungary’s rising global tourism profile.
Termed the ‘Oscars of tourism,’ this accolade not only crowns the Liget Budapest Project as Europe’s most comprehensive cultural urban development but also positions it as the paramount tourism development globally.
The Liget Budapest project is celebrating its 10-year anniversary. To commemorate this, it will have its own exhibition at the Budapest Museum of Ethnography. The museum quarter of the City Park as a whole e attracted 7.5 million visitors so far.
The launch of Budapest — What We Are Proud Of photo album at the Museum of Ethnography celebrated the city’s recent architectural renaissance. It featured distinguished guests such as architect Sándor Finta, pianist János Balázs, Ministerial Commissioner for the Liget Project László Baán, and famous Hungarian TV host Nóra Ördög.
Lake Balaton’s 179th passenger shipping season has closed with record-breaking traffic. BAHART ferries and boats carried more than 2.3 million passengers this year, already surpassing 2024’s full-year total and signalling continued growth in regional tourism.
‘“The person of Zoltán Liska, chaplain serving at the Castle parish, has for some time been of interest to the state security organs…The wording of his speeches violates the agreement between church and state.” It is beyond doubt that the priest’s messages sometimes encouraged his faithful toward active, courageous ways of keeping strong Christianity forced underground.’
Budapest has been named one of the world’s 50 most innovative cities in the 2025 Bloomberg Mayors Challenge, winning funding to pilot a project that transforms unsold produce into healthy meals for schools and elderly homes.
‘Hungaroring 86 turns out to be the dawn of a new, more global era for Formula One. Ecclestone will go on to build a truly worldwide audience, and for his troubles becomes a multi-billionaire, Britain’s fourth richest man. As the decades pass, his model of total audience capture, his style of petrol diplomacy, expands to ever wilder locales…Yet Hungary remains the place where East first met West.’
‘This does not ruin the research activities of “Lantos” in his civilian life, nor does it detract from his achievements as a historian. It merely points to the fact that even the most prominent public figures were sometimes “found” by state security, and some of them, for one reason or another, said yes to collaboration—even if the candidate was Jewish and the target was the State of Israel.’