Google Maps recently announced that it added Street View imagery for Hungary, alongside other locations around the world. The service, which offers 360-degree, panoramic, and street-level imagery, now covers 50 countries in total. Google originally launched Street View back in 2007 with a total of 5 cities in the US. The introduction of Street View imagery for Hungary will [...]
Upon the return of Britain’s Got Talent on Saturday, the popular variety show had an audition from Hungarian shadow dance troupe, Attr.action. Led by Zoltan Szucs, founder and choreographer, the performers use their bodies to create magical portraits on a canvas, telling a story to music. Attr.action, received a standing ovation from the audience, many of [...]
Easter (Húsvét) holds great significance to the people of Hungary. This is a special time where celebrations are marked by folk traditions and religious observance. Elaborately decorated eggs, dousing rituals, church ceremonies, prayers, and special foods are common practices leading up to and during Easter in Hungary. Here are a few of the most popular [...]
The following is a guest post from Phil Done, an American elementary teacher and author living in Budapest. He shares an amusing look at Hungarians and their love for sour cream (tejföl). To read more about Phil’s experiences in Budapest, be sure to visit his blog, “An American in Budapest.” Thanks Phil! One day in class I [...]
Launched in September 2012, “Hungarian Success Stories” is a new website that focuses exclusively on Hungarian entrepreneurs. The website features a wide range of entrepreneurs from various industries including fashions designers, architects, digital professionals to even restaurateurs and winemakers. “I’ve always fascinated and inspired by people who have the courage to start something on their own and go [...]
Google adorned its homepage today with a Doodle commemorating the 150th birthday of Gustav Klimt, an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt was able to create numerous art works that evoked love, passion and beauty. His most famous piece “The Kiss” was painted between 1907-08 and is [...]
If you’ve been in Budapest lately, you may have noticed a giant wooden rocking horse. It’s a public art installation appropriately called “The Rocking Horse“, which can accommodate up to 70 participants. The structure has been displayed at several different locations in the city. András Huszár and Gábor Miklós Szoke are the designers behind the project. Check out this video below to [...]
Exhausted and burned out from chasing the ever-elusive American dream, Jennifer Wilson and her husband Jim were desperately seeking a simpler, more connected life. Having lost half of their savings in the U.S. stock market crash in 2008, the timing seemed right to make some changes. In the summer of 2009, Jennifer, Jim and their [...]
In many myths and legends, birds connect the human world to the divine or supernatural realms that are beyond ordinary experience. In Hungary, there are two main legends that surround a mythical bird called the “Turul“, which is attributed to shaping the fate of the Hungarians. The bird is usually described as a giant eagle [...]
Perhaps nowhere in the world has the tradition of decorating eggs developed into so many unique patterns and techniques as in Central and Eastern Europe. Originating as a pagan ritual, the people in the region once believed that great powers were embodied in the egg. In particular, the egg represented life, fertility, and rebirth. With the acceptance of Christianity, decorating [...]
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