sights & culture
All you need to know about the solar eclipse
It is true: on Friday there'll be a solar eclipse that you can also enjoy by Lake Balaton. Though it might be only partial, you must know how to protect your retina.
It is true: on Friday there'll be a solar eclipse that you can also enjoy by Lake Balaton. Though it might be only partial, you must know how to protect your retina.
The castle of Balaton is introduced in an awesome 3D animation.
Have you seen Picasso's handwriting in a christening entry? We have. We visited the exhibition titled Meeting Picasso.
The musicians in the Balaton Method movie improvised songs about their best Balaton-related adventures.
Füred Spring Festival, Francophone Weeks, the anniversary of Béla Hamvas' birth. Lots of things coming up in these weeks.
Here's why they're down there, plus where you should and shouldn't look for them.
We also found a unicorn that protects Badacsony.
And now it has a brand new visitor centre with a 3d cinema, a crawling cave, and all kinds of interactive gadgets.
The first snippet of the Balaton Method has arrived with Punnany Massif in the mess hall of a classic Balaton resort. The film will be released in March.
Lake Balaton awaits Santa Claus with a tour, a family concert, a huge feast and Latin melodies.
A student of the University of Applied Arts shows her personal view of the Balaton with the help of cool illustrations.
This weekend, Lake Balaton will keep fish and geese flowing to you.
It is amazing how many pieces of contemporary and 20th century work of art fit into the castle district of Veszprém.
We looked into the extraordinary history of a 100-year-old building.
The elephant house, which was opened on 9 October, will be followed by further developments until spring 2015.
The Vaszary Villa in Balatonfüred commemorates the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I with the propaganda art of the period; the KOGART Gallery in Tihany charms with works by Miro and Chagall.
The Balaton is open in the autumn, too! Well, at least it surely is from 22 October to 2 November.
How does a humble tailor become a king? Adventures with the Giants, the Unicorn, the Wild Boar, the evil King and the dim-witted Soldiers…
The story of the three house building Pigs and the Wolf that never gives up…
In a remote corner of Hévíz, among the vines and cellars of Egregy hill stands one of the oldest churches in Hungary.
Mounting his fabulous horse, Prince Mirkó climbs the Glass Mountain, leaping all the way to the Silk Meadow to grapple with the devil soldiers, the Iron-nosed Hag and even the Dog-headed Creature!
Few restaurants can boast being almost exclusively visited by regular guests, and even fewer can count among their regulars the former president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) and the Hungarian president.
On 16-20 June the Tihany Lavender Festival took place for the tenth time in the cosy Balaton town boasting a unique microclimate. We checked it out, tasted everything worth tasting and compiled a gallery of pictures for your viewing pleasure.
Bálint Szimler and Marcell Rév are making a feature length Balaton road movie, and we shadowed them for a whole day of shooting.