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  • Anikó Wéber
    The Hungarian ceremonial dress, the Díszmagyar

    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
    Árpád Potápi talks to 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...
  • Kata Molnár-Bánffy
    Open Air Museum Szentendre

    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...
  • Kata Molnár-Bánffy
    Mária Schmidt

    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
    Miklós Vecsei

    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...
  • Ágnes Jónás
    The water of the Sajó

    Biologists and all nature-loving people may weep: iron-containing wastewater has been flowing into the River Sajó for several months

    The River Sajó, which is even praised by Gyula Juhász in one of his poems, springs from the Gömör-Szepesi mountain range in Slovakia and...
  • Kata Molnár-Bánffy
    Veszprém European Capital of Culture

    Veszprém is to be European Capital of Culture in 2023 – An Interview with Tibor Navracsics Government Commissioner

    Veszprém is a beautiful city. It's nice to walk around it, especially if you have a guide who knows every corner of the city...
  • Kata Molnár-Bánffy
    Opera House

    The Opera House opens – We talked to Szilveszter Ókovács, General Director

    The stage of the Hungarian State Opera House, including the rigging loft, is said to be as many cubic meters as the entire Víg...
  • Sára Pataki
    Lili Törőcsik, Julianna Balázs, Johanna Telek, Benjamin Amir

    World record-breaking Hungarian talents – two high school students from Budapest win the Oxford Schools Debating Competition twice in a row

    Two Hungarian high school girls have broken records, winning the Oxford Schools’ International Debating Competition in two different categories last year and again this...
  • Kata Molnár-Bánffy
    Bánffy Dániel

    “The muscovite comes, he trashes the German, and then we get it”

    So our family has its own historical knowledge of the Russians.
  • Kata Molnár-Bánffy
    Orsolya Ferencz

    What are we doing in space? – an interview with Orsolya Ferencz

    It seems as if the Hungarian public received the seemingly exotic news that our country's national space strategy had been completed and that we...
  • Ágnes Bodonovich
    Edit Frivaldszky

    ”She thanked me for helping her to became a mother” – an interview with Edit Frivaldszky

    Edit Frivaldszky is one of the best-known figures in the field of life and family protection, who has been helping mothers in distress for...
  • Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
    Papos

    We went to the Ukrainian-Hungarian border – ”The desire to give has not diminished”

    Barabás is on the Hungarian-Ukrainian border, Papos about forty kilometers away. Although we don't hear much in the news about these smaller villages closer...
  • Fanni Fekete
    Kiev, 24 February

    ”I am afraid if I left home, I would have nowhere to return to”

    The Ukrainian-Russian war has caused great fear among the Hungarians in Ukraine. Whoever had the chance to leave the country has already left but...
  • Kinga Halász
    KockaCsoki

    KockaCsoki – where making chocolate helps people with autism

    KockaCsoki ('Square' or, literally, a 'cube' of Chocolate) is more than just an artisanal chocolate workshop: it is a social enterprise that helps young...
  • Ágnes Jónás
    Fort of Füzér

    Fabulous Hungarian castles and forts worth visiting even in winter

    Hungary has so many beautiful castles and impressive forts that it would be a shame to stay indoors in winter instead of going on...
  • Kata Molnár-Bánffy
    Zoltán Szalai

    You can learn outside the four walls, too – An interview with Dr. Zoltán Szalai, Director general of Mathias Corvinus Collegium

    One of the horrors of every parent is that their child would "mix with the wrong crowd", whatever that may mean, and we often...