Budapest is a beautiful and historic city, famous for its spas. Known as the “Pearl of the Danube” this is probably one of the most beautiful cities in the old continent. There are thousands of tourists who visit it each year to learn more about its traditions. Among them, stands out the Budapest cuisine, a culinary legacy of which even the most demanding diners are left completely awe-inspired.

The traditional Hungarian cuisine enjoys unique flavours, despite gathering influences from multiple cultures, both ancient, and modern coming from Austria, France or Italy. Its cuisine is rich in spicy aromas and flavours and dishes among their more common recipes there are stews, soups, meats and fish. Although paprika is undoubtedly the star Hungarian ingredient.

Among the Budapest menus you�ll always find meat, especially game. It is usually served roasted or grilled. Among the most popular recipes there are “porkolt”, a variety meat stew; the “roston”, roasted meat, beef broth with marrow and “csirkepaprikás”, paprika chicken. One of the best known Hungarian meat products throughout the world is a type of salami known as “téliszalámi”.

However, “goulash” is the most international and typical dish. It is a thick soup made with small meat cubes with potatoes and “csipetke” (a cream made of flour and egg seasoned with paprika). The “újházi tyúkhúsleves” is another type of chicken soup with peas, mushrooms, carrots and pasta. Goose liver is typical too and it was inherited from France.

Fish lovers should try a fish soup called “halaszle”, made with fish, onions and paprika.
Rather typical of this place are the excellent fresh water fish such as pike, grilled catfish and trout with almonds. A dish to try is “paprika fish” (“halpaprikás”): soups that usually include at least three kinds of fish, onions and, of course, “paprika”.

To cook they use “tejföl” (fresh cheese such as “quark” which intensifies the flavours). Most main dishes are served with rice, homemade pasta such as “Galuška” or “tarhonya” (tiny meatballs baked with flour and egg). The salads are made of cucumbers, cabbage and peppers macerated in vinegar and many different kinds of vegetables.

Desserts are one of the Hungarian specialties. The most typical are the “pancakes”, the “somló”, a sponge cake with cream and rum, or the “palacsinta“, a delicious omelette filled with raisins, ground walnuts and lemon covered with chocolate cream. Also very typical are the sweet warm cakes with curd called “túrós csusza“.

Hungarian wine tradition is very famous. Tokaj wine is world famous, as well as wines from Lake Balaton region, full-bodied wines of Villány-Siklós region and Eger wines, in addition to the “Sangre de Toro”.

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Budapest is an intriguing city, rich in culture and virtuosity. Famous for its many medicinal springs, this great European capital hides another treasure: an enviable cultural life. Thanks to its geographical position and its historical origins, it has a rich variety of arts and cultural buildings. Moreover, the culture in Budapest is not just reserved for a small group of elite people, it’s in everyday life: art, music, literature… Everybody enjoys it.

The Hungarian capital has its own Museum Mile, like many large American cities. On both sides of the Danube River there are long avenues where you’ll find very important things to do with the cultural life in Budapest. The Andrássy Avenue stretches from the Royal Palace to the Municipal Park.

Many of the most beautiful monuments and palaces have become the seat of important museums, concert halls or theatres. In Hungary there are about 1,300 art galleries, museums and private collections, of which 225 are in Budapest.

Budapest possesses a great musical history that ranges from the Ferenc Erkel�s operas, the Franz Liszt piano pieces (very admired in Hungary), up to the folk songs of Béla Bartók (1881-1945) and Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967). Today the city hosts one of the most famous classical music festivals in the world: the Budapest Spring Festival and the Budapest Autumn Festival.

Besides the classic music, in the city it is possible to enjoy a rich offering of cultural programs such as theatre, dance or opera in the Opera of Budapest or in the Erkel Theatre. You can also see the popular operettas and the Kálmán, Lehár and Ábrahám musicals in the Operetta Theatre; or the foreign languages representations in the Merlin Theatre.

Lovers of arts and museums will need more than a day to visit the delights that the city offers. The Museum of Fine Arts is the most representative as it is recorded among the most important museums of Europe. It has an important collection of international art, including the Spanish collection, paying special attention to the Greco paintings and the Flemish, Dutch and graphics collections.

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