Posted under Weekly interests & Concerts & Festivals & Children Programs
Summer has arrived with scorching heat.
The number of programs Budapest offers to its visitors increases in parallel with the daily temperatures.
Here’s list of events I palan to visit in the coming months:
- Great Table of the Hungarians (Magyarok Nagyasztala), 28th June-1st July, Buda Castle: this new additon to the versatile Budapest summer introduces Hungary’s culinary culture and the cuisine-art from the days of the nation’s Settlement in the Carpathian Basin (896-1000) up till today.
The culinary time travel starts in Szent György Street presenting the gastronomic specialities from the age of the Hungarian Conquest: wild game and horse meat seasoned with salt, pepper, onion and garlic, prepared in traditional clay marmites.
In the Hunyadi Court you step into the Middle Ages where you’ll be indulged in the grandeur of Renaissance and Baroque cuisine.
On the Savoya Terrace cooking contests and shows will introduce you to the gastronomical changes brought by the arrival of paprika in Hungarian gastronomy.
At the Baroque Gate you can taste the specialities of ethnic minorities like Bulgarian cucumber soup, Warsaw doughnut, or Jewish apple matzoh
In the Újvilág Garden you can taste today’s foods and drinks.
- Budapest Summer Festival (Budapesti Nyári Fesztivál): two outdoor stages host the colorful programs of this year’s festival on Margaret Island and at Városmajor: the highlight of this season will be the world première of a new musical written by team of talented young Hungarians: Dracula will be staged on Margaret Island on 16th, 17th and on 23rd, 24th July .
Other exciting programs on Margaret Island include the Klezmer Magic Show on 8th July, the Nagyida Gipsies‘ specatcular dance theatre on 4th July, or the Gipsy Carnival with the 100 Member Gipsy Orchestra. For children I recommend the Little Mermaid musical on 8th July at 11 am in Városmajor.
