SpecialEvents

Text : New Year's Day Concert, 1 Jan, popular Hungarian classics, Vigado concert hall
Budapest Film Festival, long weekend in Feb or Mar, throughout the city (website: www.titanicfilmfest.hu)
Carnival Sunday, last Sun before Lent Feb/Mar, masked procession, throughout the city
Spring Uprising, 15 Mar, commemorating the 1848 Revolution, including street theatre, in front of the Hungarian National Theatre
Budapest Spring Festival, last two weeks in Mar-mid-Apr, classical music festival with dance and folk music, throughout the city (website: www.festivalcity.hu)
May Day, 1 May, craft markets, street theatre, sausage and beer tents have replaced communist practices, throughout the city
Budapesti Búcsú, last weekend Jun, celebration of the 1991 withdrawal of Soviet troops, with music, dance and theatre, various parks and public spaces (website: www.festivalcity.hu)
Danube Carnival, Jun (website: www.dunaart.hu)
Open-Air Summer Festival, Jun-Aug, music, dance and theatre, Margaret Island, Hilton Hotel and the Buda Park Stage (website: www.szabadter.hu)
BudaFest, early-mid Aug, opera and ballet festival, Opera House (website: www.viparts.hu)
Jewish Summer Festival, late Aug or early Sep, throughout the city (website: www.jewishfestival.hu)
Budapest International Fair (BNV), Sep, Budapest Fair Centre (Budapesti Vásárközpont) (website: www.bnv.hu)
Budapest Contemporary Music Weeks, late Sep-end of Oct, opening of concert season on the anniversary of Bartók's death, various venues
Budapest Autumn Festival, late Sep-mid-Oct, contemporary Arts festival, many venues (website: www.bmc.hu)
Remembrance Day, 23 Oct, national day of mourning of the Soviet crushing of the Hungarian rebellion, Kossuth tér
Szilveszter (New Year), 31 Dec, throughout the city
New Year's Eve Masked Ball, 31 Dec, Opera House (website: www.opera.hu) 

    

      

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