Moving to the countryside, a family’s mission in the Vértes mountains – “On a hill, in the dark, the little house is like a lantern”
A couple with young children gave up their life in the capital and found a new home and a new job a few years...
Barbara Schuster
Shaping body and soul – Ferenc Marlok makes scoliosis braces for teenagers
Ferenc Marlok is a master medical equipment technician who designs and produces custom-made plastic back braces for children with scoliosis. At first, the teenagers...
Sára Pataki
From feed factory to poultry shop chain – how the delicious Székely Csürke (Szekler Chicken) gets to the table
Born in Gyergyószentmiklós (Gheorgheni), Romania, educated in Kolozsvár (Cluj Napoca), he now runs the largest and most modern feed factory in Romania, and a...
Zsuzsanna Bogos
Why is the Swiss William Tell on the playing-card? – Discovering the secret of the Hungarian deck
In Hungary everyone is familiar with the so-called Hungarian playing cards, this popular, unique, and historical Hungarian game where the cards, oddly, are decorated...
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...
Kati Szám
”We never take wrestling home” – an interview with Tamás Lőrincz and Viktor Lőrincz
When Tamás Lőrincz became an Olympic champion and was interviewed, his words stood out among the many "I did it", "I achieved", "I won"...
Domokos Zováthi
Plácido Domingo: "The Hungarian Opera House is a jewel!"
Plácido Domingo was a frequent guest in Hungary this spring. In March he was conducting at the Reopening Gala of the Hungarian State Opera...
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
What shall we do with the heritage of communism? – an interview with Mária Schmidt
Every year, as we prepare for the commemoration of the 1956 Revolution and Freedom Fight, I wonder whether we will live to see the...
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
From minus one to two – We visited Tarnabod with Prime Minister's Commissioner Miklós Vecsei
"The twinkle in their eyes," says Maca, "tells me which kids want to go from one to two. Or rather from minus one to...
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
"Some even sell their kids so that the rest of the family could eat." – HIA-Hungary helps in Afghanistan, too
Since the Taliban takeover, the vibrant and intense life in Afghanistan has been completely transformed. Many shops have closed, people have no money, and...