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Budapest’s Districts in a Nutshell
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Budapest’s Districts in a Nutshell

The story of the individual districts is a brief summary of the past centuries not only from the point of view of their names: if we look at them on the map, we can immediately see that the history of their establishment and development is also the history of the expansion of Budapest.

Hungarian Conservative
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31.01.2023
Right-Wing Online Media Success Stories In the Limelight on Day 2 of MCC Conference
CURRENT

Right-Wing Online Media Success Stories In the Limelight on Day 2 of MCC Conference

On Day 2 of MCC’s ‘The Future of Publishing’ conference, a panel consisting of Israeli influencer Yair Netanyahu, German journalist Roland Tichy and Megafon founder István Gergely Kovács discussed the success stories of their online enterprises.

Márton Losonczi
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30.01.2023
Head of Olympic Committee: Budapest Games Still On the Table
CURRENT

Head of Olympic Committee: Budapest Games Still On the Table

Zsolt Gyulay, an Olympic champion himself, told reporters last Thursday that hosting the Summer Olympics in the capital city of Hungary is still the long-term objective, although a bid is not on the agenda at the moment.

Márton Losonczi
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25.01.2023
Budapest, City of Conservatives
POLITICS

Budapest, City of Conservatives

Among the rising generation of conservatives in the US and Western Europe, both Hungary and its capital are becoming synonymous with intellectual conservatism.

Rod Dreher
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16.01.2023
First Hanukkah Candle Lit in Budapest
CURRENT

First Hanukkah Candle Lit in Budapest

EMIH chief rabbi Slomó Köves said the Hungarian Jewish community is well aware that the past 25–30 years have been a real miracle: Jewish people have become able to proudly practice their faith in Hungary.

Ádám Bráder
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19.12.2022
Budapest’s 130-Year-Old Hauer Cake Shop Closes Due to Rising Energy Prices
CURRENT

Budapest’s 130-Year-Old Hauer Cake Shop Closes Due to Rising Energy Prices

Budapest’s iconic Hauer cake shop announced this month that due to the negative impact of the economic environment on the catering industry they were forced to close.

Lili Zemplényi
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26.11.2022
The Day of Budapest
CULTURE & SOCIETY

The Day of Budapest

Budapest was unified on 17 November 1873, and in the decades that followed the capital went through remarkable development, becoming the beautiful city that we know today.

Lili Zemplényi
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17.11.2022
Budapest Chain Bridge’s Iconic Lion — Built from Lego Bricks
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Budapest Chain Bridge’s Iconic Lion — Built from Lego Bricks

A couple of days ago the residents of Budapest were pleasantly surprised when they realised that at least one of the lion statues of the Chain Bridge undergoing renovation had been reinstalled—or rather, temporarily replaced by a replica made from Lego bricks.

Lili Zemplényi
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02.11.2022
Bauhaus in Budapest’s Architecture
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Bauhaus in Budapest’s Architecture

According to Walter Gropius, the ‘idea of the Bauhaus’ provides an artist with the skills with which he can occupy his place in the (machinery) industrial society. Let’s take a closer look at how this trend shaped the image of the Hungarian capital.

Hungarian Conservative
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22.10.2022
Discovering the Colourful Walls of Budapest
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Discovering the Colourful Walls of Budapest

Thanks to different art groups and individual artists, an ever-growing number of exciting mural artworks are popping up. Let’s look at some of them!

Hungarian Conservative
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20.10.2022
Budapest Purged of Lenin Monuments: 30th Anniversary of Hungary’s Post-Regime Change Iconoclasm
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Budapest Purged of Lenin Monuments: 30th Anniversary of Hungary’s Post-Regime Change Iconoclasm

30 years ago, dozens of statues were removed from public places all across Hungary. The Iconoclasm of the 1990s was not only a symbolic event of the regime change, but also a moment of democratic awakening for Hungary.

Lili Zemplényi
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23.09.2022
The Etymology of the Name of Budapest
CULTURE & SOCIETY

The Etymology of the Name of Budapest

Historians and researchers have revealed a lot of information about the past of our country and capital, but the origin of the names of Buda and Pest is still unclear, although there are several explanations for it.

Sabrina Bartolotto
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12.09.2022
The Meaning of Socrealism—What Exactly is That?
CULTURE & SOCIETY

The Meaning of Socrealism—What Exactly is That?

The term is more and more frequently heard from the lips of generations who were born long after the 90s, but do they and those older than them use it correctly, and are they aware of its exact meaning?

Hungarian Conservative
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12.09.2022
Max Nordau: A Scion of Budapest Who Dreamt of a ‘Muscular Jewry’
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Max Nordau: A Scion of Budapest Who Dreamt of a ‘Muscular Jewry’

Left-wing Zionism is barely alive, while right-wing secular Zionism has been dominant until now, but the previous Israeli prime minister was already something Nordau could never have envisioned: a kippah-wearing ex-officer of the IDF, Naftali Bennett.

László Bernát Veszprémy
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19.08.2022
Protesters in Budapest: Small Crowd, Big Bridges
CURRENT

Protesters in Budapest: Small Crowd, Big Bridges

Protestors have been gathering on the streets of Budapest for days now, however, the turnout is not quite what they expected.

Ádám Bráder
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24.07.2022
The Dread of Car Owners: Parking in Budapest
CURRENT

The Dread of Car Owners: Parking in Budapest

The recently accepted laws raise the parking prices of Budapest to a new high, many car owners are in panic.

Ádám Bráder
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07.07.2022
The Golden Age of Art Deco Comes to Life in Budapest
CULTURE & SOCIETY

The Golden Age of Art Deco Comes to Life in Budapest

The best days of the period between the two world wars are evoked by Art Deco Budapest, a new exhibition in the Hungarian National Gallery.

Gellért Rajcsányi
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30.06.2022
New World-Class Building of the Museum of Ethnography Opens in Budapest
CULTURE & SOCIETY

New World-Class Building of the Museum of Ethnography Opens in Budapest

The Hungarian Museum of Ethnography moves to a building custom-designed for it for the first time in its one-hundred-and-fifty-year history. The new building in the Hungarian capital is one of the top products of contemporary architecture.

Gellért Rajcsányi
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31.05.2022
Between Hell and Paradise: Hieronymus Bosch Arrives in Budapest
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Between Hell and Paradise: Hieronymus Bosch Arrives in Budapest

The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest presents a new, exciting exhibition of the enigmatic works of the renowned Dutch painter of the late Middle Ages. This is one the most significant Bosch exhibitions worldwide in the last fifty years.

Gellért Rajcsányi
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29.04.2022
House of Music, Hungary: A New Architectural Wonder Is Born in Budapest
CULTURE & SOCIETY

House of Music, Hungary: A New Architectural Wonder Is Born in Budapest

‘Complex simplicity’, was the catch-phrase picked by a critic to sum up the work of the Japanese architect, and this complex simplicity is indeed manifested in the House of Music, Hungary.  

Gellért Rajcsányi
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09.03.2022
Roger Scruton’s Ideas of ‘Building Better, Building Beautiful’ Found Fertile Ground in Budapest
CULTURE & SOCIETY

Roger Scruton’s Ideas of ‘Building Better, Building Beautiful’ Found Fertile Ground in Budapest

Scruton traced back our classical understanding of beauty to the Enlightenment period, and argued that in our increasingly secular world beauty is a path back to the transcendent.

Lili Zemplényi
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07.10.2021
How Budapest Dreams and Reconstructs Its Past
CULTURE & SOCIETY

How Budapest Dreams and Reconstructs Its Past

This is Budapest: a big city that dreamed and then built for itself a colourful past during the last decades of the old world, in those final moments before the dawn of modernism.

Gellért Rajcsányi
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01.04.2021

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