Culture

Budapest museums and exhibitions present the history and culture of the Magyars while featuring many fine examples of contemporary art...

The works of renowned composers such as Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály or Ferenc Liszt make the hungarian classical and folk music famous all around the world...

There are quite a few museums in Budapest, which also give home to temporary or travelling collections from time to time...

You can find a foreign language section in almost every bookshop and library in Budapest. There are lots of books about Budapest, but the works of Hungarian writers are also popular...

People in Budapest really like going to the cinema. That’s the reason why almost every Budapest mall has a movie complex showing the latest movies from all over the world...

Today it’s possible to order and buy tickets in advance for opera or classical concerts, light music concerts, theatre plays, sport events, exhibitions, fairs,festivals and serveral other interesting programmes in Budapest...

Here you can see a list of the most important churches in downtown Budapest. Most of them are free to visit with a few exceptions...

The jewish population of Budapest is the largest community in Central Europe: around 110 000 jewish people live in the city. Jewish culture flourishes, there are plenty of cultural events attracting visitors to Budapest from everywhere...