If you’re spend the whole day in an air-conditioned room during the heat wave in Budapest you certainly start feeling claustrophobia by evening.

Here’s a great, free outdoor program after sunset.

Go to the Tér-Film-Zene Fesztivál (Space-Film-Music Festival) at the Parliament building where approx. 200 films are shown on giant sceens daily between 16.30-23.00 including animations, musical, silent and dance movies.
During silent films piano music is played by István Gyarmati.

You can even have your dinner there because a large dining area welcomes the hungry guests with food stalls offering roast dishes, grilled sausage, salads and drinks.

Date: between 6th -29th July

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World music will be in the spotlight on the 21st-22nd as part of the popular Budapest event titled Summer on The Chain Bridge.

For a couple of years now the oldest bridge of Budapest turns into a pedestrian zone offering colourful programs from folklore to jazz music every weekend in July-August.

On 21st-22nd July jazz and other light music bands whose music is based on folklore elements will give concerts on the bridge.

Jazz performers will dominate the stages on the last weekend of July (28th-29th). The Jazz Night & Day program of the Summer on the Chain Bridge puts jazz musicians in the limelight whose music incorporates components of traditional Afro-American music.

Food stalls on both ends of the bridge sell food, snacks, and beverages.

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The legendary band will give a concert in the
Puskás Fernec Stadium on Friday, 20th July as part of their A Bigger Bang European Tour 2007.

Address: Puskás Ferenc Stadium, Istvánmezei út 3-5., XIV. district,

Budapest, M2 (red) metroline, Stadionok station

Tickets: from 12,900 HUF-21,900 HUF at Ticketpro.

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Vintage cars will parade through Budapest this Saturday as a finale of the grand tour called the Donau Masters. The tour departs from Ulm, travels through Austria and Slovakia then arrives at the Hungaroring at Mogyoród from where the spectacular old vehicles march to Budapest. The organizer’s of the Donau Masters tour give 10,000 Euros charity to the SOS Children’s Villages along the countries through which the tour travels.

The array of oldtimers, the participants of which were all made before 31st December 1976, starts its tour of Budapest at Heroes’ Square, drives along Andrássy Avenue and ends the journey at Roosevelt Square around 15.30-16.00.

Make sure you find a good spot along the route if you want to admire beautiful cars like old Mercedeses, BNWs, Porsches, Jaguars, Ferraris, Alfa Romeos.

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Nothing kinky just a great exhibition about the history of ice cream in the Museum of Commerce and Catering in Budapest.

Did you know that people made ice cream as early as 5000 years ago? The Greeks ate the cold delicacy as medicine while Alexander the Great gave it to his officers as stimulant before battles.

The exhibition tells you many more about the development of ice cream and its production. An ice cream vendor’s ticycle from between the two World Wars, and interior of an 19th century confectioner’s shop help you imagine the story of the frosty delight.

So if you’re fed up with walking in the streets of Budapest where the asphalt radiates suffocating heat, drop in the Museum of Commerce and Catering and the Exhibition about Ice Cream definitely cools you down a bit.

Address: Szt István tér 5., next to St Stephen’s Cathedral

Date: 2nd June-15th September

Admission: 600 HUF/adult, 300 HUF/students, pensioners, family ticket (2 adults + children) 1200 HUF

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