sights & culture
A road leading from Harvard to Csórompuszta - Hello Wood kicks off
Saturday, 19 July marked the launch of the architecture camp Hello Wood in Csórompuszta with the participation of a hundred students.
Saturday, 19 July marked the launch of the architecture camp Hello Wood in Csórompuszta with the participation of a hundred students.
We checked out the place artists in the Salföld area like to frequent, which is a gallery, a pub and a restaurant offering home-cooked flavours all in one.
On Saturday Siófok will host a free all-day festival for the whole family, with quality entertainment, concerts as well as family, sports and children’s programmes.
Half of the population was wallowing in the mud at Balaton Sound, while festivalgoers at VinCE Balaton in Füred were drowning their sorrows over the deplorable weather in wine.
It will be worth popping down to Balatonföldvár this Saturday because there’s going to be not one, but two splendid programs to check out there: the finals of the beach water polo championship and the Balaton Fishing Day.
Friday and Saturday day passes for MasterCard Balaton Sound are all sold out, and the last four-day passes were snatched up weeks ago, so a full house is guaranteed on these two days. Day passes for Thursday and Sunday are still available, but they are selling like hot cakes, the festival organizers said.
A festival community which builds, beautifies, shares, connects and charges. This is what Everness Festival was like for us!
Tickets are already available via pre-purchase for the 8-9 August Paloznak Jazz and Wine Picnic, a festival born out of the union of quality music and gastronomy.
The sailing contest begins Thursday morning – so if you don’t want to miss the breathtaking sight of 600 yachts starting their run, then make sure to be on the beach at 9 am. After the excitement you can enjoy a glass of champagne at their exhibitors, then have some delicious food products from the producers.
Download it, plan with it, browse through it, and it is almost time to leave for Zamárdi! The Balaton Sound mobile phone app is the most useful tool there is for festivalgoers because it is a quick and easy way for you to have the entire festival schedule available on the go – and it is free.
We talked to Design Terminal head Gergely Böszörményi Nagy about Kapolcs, an underground cheese workshop and solar eclipses.
Kerekes Band, Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra and Rájátszás are three of the confirmed performers at this year’s VinCE Balaton wine festival, which will take place between 10 and 13 July in Balatonfüred.
In cooperation with ARTplacc Contemporary Art Festival, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design will hold an art workshop between 14 and 18 July for youngsters living in Tihany, Balatonfüred and the surrounding villages.
Yes, you heard it right, one of the most successful and most well known DJs of all time is going to play an all night set on Day 0 at B.my.Lake Festival. “All Night Long” by Danny Tenaglia on 18 August in Balatonvilágos at the Club Aliga Üdülőközpont (Holiday Centre).
Taking place in Balatonakarattya this July, Europe’s first recycling festival called Everness Festival will feature more than 600 events.
Village fete deluxe: cream of viola soup, Gerbeaud with pálinka and lavender, an iPhone taking a plunge into Lake Balaton as an art piece, excellent wines and flickering flames on the horizon of the Hungarian Tuscany. This is what the first Kálibuli in Köveskál looked like.
Kultkikötő is offering visitors to Balatonföldvár two fine arts exhibitions free of charge between 28 June and 31 August.
Kultkikötő (Culthaven) will host around 150 events from 14 June to 30 September in Balatonföldvár, Balatonlelle and Balatonfenyves.
Balaton-themed and lustful; naive and ironic; happy and colourful. The exhibition of the oil paintings by Andrej Tóth, titled Plattensee is now open aboard A38.
Wines, concerts, a street-organ festival, dixie and bream – these are the new items on the NagyonBalaton palette.
There are many types of village fetes: some with better programs than others, sack races and pie eating. But there are fetes where the bar is set high in everything from cultural events to wines. This is Kálibuli in Köveskál.
Magnificent panorama, rich vegetation, a pleasant pine grove and the story how a bunch of fishermen escaped from the icy Balaton. All this awaits you on the walk up to the Szent Mihály Chapel in Vonyarchvashegy.
With Sander van Doorn, Lindstrom live and Roni Size&Dynamite MC added to the list of Sound performers, this year’s line-up is almost complete.
A bit of Somogy County, a bit of India and a bit of the Shire from the Lord of the Rings. The Krishna Valley in Somogyvámos is closed but open to all, mystical and profane. Sacred cows, friendly inhabitants, no alcohol, no violence, no electricity.
Two ferries will set off from Tihany, and will cruise around Lake Balaton for an hour and a half, while the passengers enjoy a live performance by Csík Zenekar.