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..HUNGARY STARTS HERE ... |
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Hungarian National Tourist Board
A good starting point for everything you need to know about the country, its regions and cities, culture, spa culture, where to go, stay and eat, what’s on and what’s hot. |
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Hungarian National Tourist Office for the UK
Includes all your necessary tourism info as well as suggestions for activity holidays, winter breaks, Budapest 24/7 and more. |
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Budapest Tourism Office
The official site of the Hungarian capital. News about everything from the latest art exhibitions and the Budapest Spring Festival (in which Karina, Rohan and the quartet take part in the book), to the Budapest Pálinka Festival and the finest spas in town. Budapest photo gallery, a video to watch and a webcam looking towards Buda Castle. |
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Malév
The Hungarian national airline, offering flights from London to Budapest from £110. |
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The Budapest Times
Hungary’s leading English-language news site. |
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Bela Bartók Museum, Budapest
The home of Hungary’s greatest composer, now transformed into a wonderful museum in Buda. |
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Kodály Museum, Budapest
Bartók’s friend and colleague Zoltan Kodály, founder of the famous music teaching method and a fellow collector of Hungarian folksong with Bartók, lived in central Budapest. His apartment is a fine memorial at the Körönd which is now named after him. |
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Liszt Museum, Budapest
The legendary 19th-century pianist and composer’s last apartment in the Hungarian capital is lovingly reconstructed, on the first floor of what used to be the Academy of Music. Includes an important Liszt Research Centre.
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Franz Liszt Academy of Music (Liszt Ferenc Academy), Budapest
Hungary’s most famous music college, which includes a beautiful concert hall and a magnificent foyer. (In the book, Mimi’s debut recital takes place here, as does Karina’s concert with the St Francis Quartet.)
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Bacchus Hungaricus
A site devoted to Hungary’s long-established and distinguished wine-making tradition, with sections exploring various grape varieties, regions of the country and the country’s history of wine-making.
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Watch rare footage from the 1956 Revolution |
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Hungary1956.com
Commemorative website with a plethora of information, photos and videos
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House of Terror Museum, Budapest
Situated in the building that was once the ÁVH headquarters, this museum offers powerful insights into the atrocities experienced in Hungary in the Second World War and under the hardline Communist regime until 1956. The museum has an excellent and informative website.
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Holocaust Memorial Centre, Budapest
The HDKE offers a profoundly moving tribute to the hundreds of thousands of Jewish Hungarians who perished in the Holocaust.
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Information from the BBC
A timeline, explanation and eyewitness accounts of the 1956 Revolution, presented excellently on the BBC website.
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HUNGARIAN CULTURE IN THE UK
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Hungarian Cultural Centre
The HCC presents a superb programme of lectures, discussions, concerts, films and book launches in its Covent Garden headquarters, and produces a regular brochure outlining these and other Hungarian cultural events in London.
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British-Hungarian Fellowship
The British-Hungarian Fellowship has existed for 56 years. Its primary purpose is to foster friendship and understanding between the people of Britain and Hungary through the organization of meetings to discuss topics of mutual interest.
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The British-Hungarian Society
The British Hungarian Society was founded in 1990 and aims to bring together all, British and Hungarian alike, who are interested in Hungary and furthering British-Hungarian relations. The Society holds six to eight meetings a year to discuss political, economic, educational and social issues.
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Sussex Hungarian Society
Based in Lewes, East Sussex, this is a focal point for Hungarian culture and discussion in the south of England (entirely by coincidence, Karina, Julian and Jamie live in Lewes). Formerly the Lewes Hungarian Society, it organises special events like folk dance evenings and a summer festival.
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Cambridge Szeged Society
The ancient university towns of Cambridge in the UK and Szeged in Hungary seem natural partners for twinning. The CSS promotes an annual festival week of talks and concerts as well as a programme of lectures throughout the year, aiming to foster cross-cultural friendship. |
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The Gay Hussar
London’s famed Hungarian restaurant in the heart of theatreland, serving national specialities and fine Hungarian wines and much loved for its ambience by political figures, journalists and artists. Situated at no.2, Greek Street, Soho, London W1D 4NB.
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Online Food Store: Lexi Hungary Ltd
Hungarian food specialist with online, email and telephone ordering. Can be found at Chiswick Farmers’ Market, west London, and outlets in Bristol and Birmingham as well as the White Horse Pub in Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey. The site also offers some more delectable Hungarian recipes.
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Trans-Danubia Wines
Says it’s ‘the home of Hungarian wine in the UK’ – site includes lots of information on the history of Hungarian wine production, matching the right wine to your food, reviews and of course an online shop.
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Berry Brothers & Rudd
The revered upmarket wine store in St James, London, stocks a number of fine Hungarian wines.
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The Hungarian Language School in London
Runs classes for adults and also for children.
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The British Kodály Academy
“Everyone who learns an instrument should sing first. Singing, independent of an instrument, is the real and profound school of musical abilities.” Zoltan Kodály
Kodály’s pioneering technique for teaching music has been embraced by those in the know the world over. Find out more about it, courses, summer schools, etc, here.
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Colourstrings and the Szilvay Foundation
‘Colourstrings was the first to offer music education from a very young age in the UK and is the only approach that can be used all the way up to conservatoire level. In Finland it has been a core part of the state music education for more than thirty years and is now an internationally respected way of teaching music to children. Many local education authorities in Britain are now introducing Colourstrings into their schools.’
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