sights & culture
Back to nature! - Salföld Manor
Can’t tell a Pumi from a Puli? You can still have a great time in Salföld.
Can’t tell a Pumi from a Puli? You can still have a great time in Salföld.
We lunged at the Fortepan archives and it turned out that Siófok had a cool sandy beach already at the the time of World War 1.
Surely everyone has been to the Festetics Palace, but it’s worth noting that the most exciting sights are not always open to the public. Except when you are led through the mirror covered halls and the centuries by potato breeder turned all-knowing guide Miklós bácsi.
Darkness falls over the realm of the Sun King and the Moon Queen. The curse can only be broken if the royal couple sets out and drinks from the water of life...
She had planned on surveying the region in a matter of a week; in the end, the comprehensive and detailed tourist map of the Káli Basin took a year for two persons to finish. What could possess someone to bathe in rainwater all summer long and search for trodden tourist trails? The mind behind the Káli Basin map, Csilla Fehér talked to us about the joys and challenges of map-making.
KOGART in Tihany has placed a new venue on the cultural map of the northern shore.
…a story about slight, hiding away, love and forgiveness, acted out with puppets…
…a story about love, treason and devilish deceit, acted out with puppets.
Hévíz, Keszthely, Gyenesdiás and Vonyarcvashegy sit cosily side by side in the northwestern corner of the Balaton. We explored the area in search of things to do around here.
The second STRAND – Nagyon Zene Festival, organized in Zamárdi as part of the Nagyon Balaton event series, came to an end in the early hours of Sunday morning, proving to be a new success story in the Balaton region.
Just a couple of years after its publication, the most popular work of the queen of crime was already successful on stage as well.
We met up for a chat with three members of Mary Popkids at Strand Festival.
Andy Hefler moved from America to Budapest more than 20 years ago, and since then he has been running, directing and playing in an improvisational theatre, singing in and writing lyrics for the Kéknyúl Hammond Band – what is more, he was the trainer behind the scenes of the popular Hungarian improv TV show Beugró.
The festival was organized for the third time this year in one of the most picturesque villages on the northern Balaton shore.
Hungarian and international stars are coming to have some beach fun at Strand - Nagyon Zene Festival between 20 and 23 August in Zamárdi.
We visited Kapolcs to show you what happens to a peaceful village when it is occupied for more than a week by the startup scene, a dozen concerts and lots of hammering architects.
Balatonaliga is easily accessible by train from both Déli Railway Station and Keleti Railway Station, and the train station in Balatonaliga is only a few minutes away from the main entrance of B my Lake Festival.
Draw or paint the BmyLake logo on yourself and take a picture. If you're creative, cool and courageous, and you can't wait to party here is your chance!
The history of the Folly family arboretum began with the trees planted by the great-grandfather, Today, an impermeable green welcomed us to Badacsonyörs.
If you feel like partying in style and having a more relaxed B my Lake experience, then the VIP pass was invented for you.
We spent three days at Hello Wood to find out what is it that attracts people from all over the world.
It is a well-known fact that a diet rich in fish is super healthy, thanks mainly to omega-3 fatty acids. The aim of the Balaton H.E.K.K. and Health Festival is to educate visitors about Balaton fish and the nutritious dishes you can make from them.
The Vaszary Villa in Balatonfüred is a bit like Ludwig Museum in Budapest. We took a tour of the current exhibitions and found out about future plans as well.
We popped down to Tihany to explore ARTplacc - admission fees and prices did not make our jaws drop, but the design and the night sky sure did.
ART&ME Gallery and Kultkikötő Balatonföldvár Open-Air Theatre has launched an art competition under the title “No swan – show us a different Balaton”. An exhibition with the pieces submitted for the competition will be organized, containing a selection of fresh, forward-looking contemporary works of art, which reflect on the buzzword “Balaton”.