Budapest Christmas Fair 2012
Budapest Christmas Fair 2012, (from the 16th of November to the 30th of December 2012) is one of the most popular Christmas fairs in Europe. If you want to buy something unique and original for your loved ones, Vörösmarty Square is the perfect market for you. Ideally located in the Vörösmarty Square, this market is a fundamental part of Vaci utca, downtown Budapest.
To entertain the market visitors, there will be live folk, jazz, world music concerts and dance performances every day from 17.00 to 20.00. Also, there will be puppet shows that will take place on weekends during the morning.
122 stalls offer high quality products (selected and approved by a special jury of folk art experts).
Gastronomy: Besides the usual Budapest culinary delights (kürtös kalács, pizza and bread baked in clay oven) you can taste traditional Hungarian Christmas dishes: fish, roast goose leg, foie gras, and stuffed cabbage as well as sausages and grilled meat.
You’ll have the chance to see spectacular Christmas light shows on Café Gerbeaud façade from the 30th of November to the 23rd of December at 17.00, 18.00, 19.00 and 20.00.
The Budapest Christmas Fair is the best place to buy unique Christmas gifts: All products are handmade and selected by a group of a professional jury that ensures their quality.
So if you visit the Budapest Christmas Fair 2012 you’ll have the chance to see many cultural programs, including folk music performances that will be perform, while you are shopping.
As in previous years, there will be a live nativity scene in the square with a cot and animals. You can also take part in a Christmas tree decorating contest.
Moreover, from the 15m high of the Christmas tree, the flame of peace, brought by scouts from the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, greets visitors to this festive market. During the Advent season, a new candle is lit every weekend until Christmas to celebrate the arrival of this special holiday.
Santa Claus will greet children during the following three days:
4th of December from 11.00 to 13.00 and from 15.00 to 18.00.
5th of December from 16.00 to 19.00.
On the 6th of December, the Finnish Santa will greet children from 14:00 to 16:00.
The Budapest Christmas Fair at Vörösmarty Square is one of the favorite events among tourists during winter. Even if you have no intention of buying anything, it is a wonderful experience to stroll among the stalls, enjoy a glass of mulled wine and see some of the cultural programs at the outdoor stage.
There is always a nice party atmosphere, where you’ll find unique design products, as well as a great cultural program. It is the ideal place to go with family and children.
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday: 12.00 – 20.00, weekends: 10.00 – 20.00.
If you want more information about the event, click on the following link: http://www.budapest-tourist-guide.com/budapest-christmas-fair.html
Cinta Blanch
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Wamp in Budapest
To talk about design in todays day and age is to be aware of what is really going on in the field of aesthetic exploration and production and marketing means. All of it is linked with one another: dont expect that the new t-shirt that youve bought in the kitschiest shop in your city has nothing to do with any new conceptual agenda or relation with the newest in political complaints or new ways of production which are environment-friendly. Many designers, today go for green trends, an option which as well as helping the planet with its immediate corrosion and destruction, works as an even more seductive factor for the product youre about to consume; and its more than obvious, dont let them fool you: behind any attempt of political correctness theres also a catch to get more money out of you so that others make more money.
The ease that design production is made with these days, thanks in the same way to quicker and more efficient means of production, makes that many young people can show their work and that theres a larger variety of new possibilities. Despite that quantity doesnt mean quality, whats true is that among more range of choice regarding fashion, accessories, objects, music or home decoration, there are better options of finding the right gift or fetish. In other words, as well as being a very good option so that thousands of creative people gather, Wamp is also one of the best places to find the most unusual and special Christmas gift, which will surely delight the person receiving the gift, because they will have a unique stylish item, and especially because it will be the latest in Budapests world of design.
And so, Wamp is more than a market, its a designers exhibition, a space of action, an emerging community of new talents in Budapest. Wamp presents itself once or twice a month during the year. This way, the best in design is available for citizens, tourists, curious people and everyone who is passing by or lives in the beautiful city of Budapest. This way, Wamp is the perfect meeting place for creative people from around the world, as well as the trend setters who search for the cutting edge in European fashion.
Wamp presents the best in graphic arts, photography, painting, sculpture, ceramics, home textiles, fashion, accessories, jewelry, furniture and gastronomy. Some of the names you have to remember when visiting Wamp are, MÍO Design, Gera Noémi, Muka Viktória, Kaintz Regina, Czeizler Zsolt, Földi Klára, Ligeti Miklós, BringaBag, Becker Judit, Csekő Etelka and MUSU among others. For more information on Wamp visit the following webpage: http://www.wamp.hu/
Alexa Ray
Get apartments in Budapest and be part of its vibrant cultural life as well as the unmissable Wamp Market, where youll definitely find what you were looking for in new fashion, design and accessories. Highly recommended for artists, designers, art critics and, of course, trend setters.
Translated by: aleixgwilliam
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