Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
March
An excellent month to visit. With the start of the city's red-letter event - the
annual Budapest Spring Festival - both music and spring are in the air.
Budapest Spring Festival
The capital's largest and most important cultural event (
www.festivalcity.hu
)
has more than
200 events over two weeks in late March and early April at some 60 venues across town.
National Dance House Festival
Hungary's biggest
táncház
(
www.tanchaztalalkozo.hu/eng
) is held over two days in very
late March at the Palace of Arts and other venues across town.
April
Full spring is just glorious in Budapest: it looks and feels like the season in
e.e. cummings' poem 'in Just': 'spring - when the world is puddle-wonderful'.
Budapest Dance Festival
This annual 10-day festival (
www.budapestdancefestival.hu
)
, held at the National Dance
Theatre in the Castle District to coincide with International Dance Day (29 April), features
an array of styles from ballet and contemporary to folk.
May
The selection of fresh vegetables and fruit isn't great in winter, but in spring a
cycle of bounty begins.
Budapest Pálinka Festival
The Budapest Pálinka Festival (
http://budapestipalinkafesztival.hu/eng/index_eng.html
)
,
held in Erzsébet tér, is a four-day gastronomic event where visitors can taste over 300 types
of Hungarian fruit brandy.
