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Events in Budapest
Arts and Music
Open-air theater performances, musicals, dance shows, kids’ programs and several concerts are held every summer (June-July-August) during the Budapest Summer Festival.
This summer, the centenary World Championships is one of the biggest sport events with more than 1,000 participating fencers all along with their coaches, sport leaders, guests.
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Sightseeing in Budapest
The finest example of Hungarian neo-Classicist architecture has, from 1846, been the most important public collection preserving items from the history of the Hungarian people from the earliest times to today.
Only few metropolises in the world have in their centre a hill such as the Gellért enjoying nature protected status, in the depths of which are huge thermal water reserves used by three medicinal baths built at the foot of the hill: the country’s most elegant spa, the Gellért thermal baths, jacuzzi and wave bath, swimming pool and strand, and two baths dating from the Turkish period, the Rudas and Rác Medicinal Baths with thermal, steam and tub facilities.
As the millennial celebrations of 1896 approached, the nation’s demand for representation channelled the conception of a unique Parliament building. The Palace of Westminster in part inspired the design, but a well-known Hungarian architect, Imre Steindl, laid out the plans in their entirety.
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