The Fernando Botero exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest was supposed to close down yesterday, but it has been extended for one more month. So, if you have not visited the museum for this cool exhibition yet, you have been given a mercy month to do so.
Read more about the Fernando Botero exhibition, or check out our information about other Budapest museums.
The annual Palinka and Sausage Festival in Budapest is a very popular event bringing lots of Hungarian and tourists to the Castle area of Budapest to drink Palinka and to eat delicious Hungarian sausage. In 2011 the dates of the festival is October 6 – October 9. If you want more information about this great festival, check out our Palinka and Sausage Festival page.
The dates for the International Winefestival in Budapest in 2011 has been launched. If you like wine, champagne and would like to be there on the terrace in front of the Castle, then you better visit Budapest between September 7 and 11 in 2011.
More information about the festival, prices and opening times at our page dedicated to this festival: International Wine festival
This is not completely our favorite style, but if you would like to see, and let us not forget, hear, Slayer & Megadeth as they perform in Budapest Sportarena in Budapest in 2011, then this is a great opportunity to do so. This will for sure be an amazing concert for those who like Slayer & Megadeth. The date for the concert is April 8th, starting at 20.00.
Slayer & Megadeth Budapest 2011
Budapest Sportarena
April 8th, 20.00
– Prague concerts –
Are you looking for a hotel in Budapest in January? Or are you only going to book in January and come to Budapest later? We have looked around, and below you can find the names of some good hotels with good prices currently:
Our criterias were: January 20 – January 23, Double Room (two persons) – three nights
5-star hotels:
Le Meridien Budapest – 290 Euro – Book a room
Corinthia Grand Hotel Royal – 361 Euro – Book a room
4-star hotels:
Regency Suites – 165 Euro – Book a room
Carlton Hotel – 162 Euro – Book a room
3-star hotels:
Promenade City Hotel – 126 Euro – Book a room
Cosmo Fashion Hotel – 135 Euro – Book a room
All hotels are centrally located, but not all hotels have breakfast included.
The popular band Roxette from Sweden will come to rock in Budapest on the first day of June in 2011. If you would like to see the stars as they sing and perform, this is a great chance to do so! The venue for the concert is Budapest Sportarena, so if you want to go by metro, get of at the stop named “Stadionok”.
Roxette Budapest 2011
Budapest Sportarena
June 1st, 20:00
Tickets: WorldTicketShop
The other exhibition named Fernando Botero’s paintings opened September 30th, and the last day of the exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts is January 23rd. So, if these exhibtions sounds interesting, you better hurry up and visit the Museum of Fine Arts before the paintings are transported to their next exhibition venue.
Not far away from Austria and Vienna the beautiful city of Sopron is located. To Sopron thousands of people travel every year to parttake in the annual festival named “Volt Festival”. In 2011 they will probably return between June 29th and July 2nd, as these are the dates for the festival.
For more information about the Volt Festival, check out our Volt Festival page.
The exhibition in the Museum of Ethnography, part of the Uplifting Century national series of programmes, presents carpets made in peasant households in the light of and together with the efforts made in the late 19th century to promote cottage industry.
If this sounds interesting you have 8 months left before this temporary exhibition will close up in the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest.
Women, Hand-Woven Rugs, Home Industry
June 24, 2011 – August 26, 2012
The dates for the annual Christmas Markets in Budapest has not yet been released, but if the tradition of the former years is kept on, then we can expect the markets to open around November 19th, and stay open until December 29th.
More information will come later.
Check out our page dedicated to the Christmas Market in Budapest
