The Liget Budapest Project has received the award for Best Creative and Sustainable Tourism District at the Creative Tourism Awards in Barcelona, beating more than 200 international applicants.
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.
Artist of the Nation and Kossuth Prize–winning choreographer Zoltán Zsuráfszky reflects on a lifetime devoted to Hungarian folk dance. From his formative collecting trips across the Carpathian Basin in the 1970s to leading the Hungarian National Dance Ensemble today, he speaks about preserving authentic traditions, bringing them to the world stage, and the philosophy behind works such as Hungarian Wedding (Magyar Menyegző).
‘Our analytical work covers areas including transport development, the housing crisis, the reuse of brownfield sites, Budapest’s large public parks, and the capital’s portfolio of development tenders…Beyond our professional work, we also aim to strengthen residents’ connection to their city through community programmes.’
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.’