Six water tour ideas – Discover Hungary from the water
If you've ever sat in a canoe, kayak, or stood on a SUP board, you've probably noticed how different the world is from the...
Sára Pataki
Learning a new language at the age of 92 – Kató Lomb, one of the world's first simultaneous interpreters
She struggled with German as a child, but a few decades later, a Russian-English dictionary she found in a resale shop sealed her fate...
Krisztián Pomichal
”Like the slave market in the colonies” – Gyula Patasy’s vivid memories of the deportation
If you are lucky enough to live for seven or eight decades, you are bound to suffer the inevitable consequences of history. Among the...
Sára Pataki
Tibor Baranski – The “Hungarian Schindler”, who saved thousands of Jews from death
During the Second World War and the Holocaust, in Budapest, a 22-year-old Catholic priest student saved thousands of Jewish women, children, and men from...
Anikó Wéber
A glimpse into the wardrobes of the Hungarian nobility! – We present the most beautiful Hungarian ceremonial dresses
For centuries, politics and prevailing ideals have influenced what a nobleman wore to family and official functions. We pin tricolored cockades on our clothes...
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
Healing from the national trauma – an interview with János Árpád Potápi, Secretary of State
The Public Treasures series presents month by month the areas that we see as valuable, our common treasure, worthy of preservation and transmission. Hungarian...
Sára Pataki
”Hi, doctor Rishar, remember me? You operated on me!” – Dr. Richárd Hardi, ophthalmologist, restored the sight of tens of thousands of people in Congo
Dr. Richard Hardi, an ophthalmologist who arrived in sub-Saharan Africa in the mid-1990s with a suitcase full of instruments, works in the poorest parts...
Emese Kosztin
I will tell you my story - How would I live if I had only this one life?
Do you feel like you cannot find your way, this is not how you want to live? That you could do more and better...
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
Transylvania comes to life in Szentendre – we visited the new exhibition of the Hungarian Open Air Museum
You need to have a playful heart to dream up, build and manage a human-scale landscape tableau, a toy city built from real elements...
Anna Petz
Let the family discover the city together! – ‘Budapest with Kids’ map published
Cool, shaded parks, tucked-away bookshops, family-friendly confectionery shops and cultural hubs exciting for children as well. The ‘Budapest with Kids’ map published in early...
Fanni Fekete
„I share the hopes and concerns regarding migration” – Exclusive interview with composer José Cura
José Cura composer-conductor-tenor's first own opera will be performed at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest. The „Montezuma and the Red Priest...
Nóra Streit
120 volunteers working for children – InDaHouse in Hernádszentandrás
Hernádszentandrás is a village with a population of barely 400 located in the Hernád Valley, where schoolchildren starting the year are greeted not only...
Lívia Kölnei
“What else is worth investing in but the children of the future?” – In conversation with Katalin Novák
At the turning point of the Old and New Year, we talked with an energetic politician who thinks in broad social perspectives while at...
Szilvia Németh
Dr. Dóra Vesztergom: “The ovaries cannot be botoxed”
Warning! The following interview contains phrases that are likely to disturb the peace, with intent. We aim to sound the alarm bell and make...
Ildikó Antal-Ferencz
“A normal birth does not require medical intervention” – in conversation with obstetrician-gynaecologist Balázs Bálint
Balázs Bálint is one of the most popular Hungarian obstetricians. Expectant mothers queue up for him. He continues – as a legacy of his...