The rich culture of Budapest
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 Erkels 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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