Eszter Vass
25 new hotels projected to be opened in Budapest by 2018
The new hotels and the investments of the previous years have raised the number of hotel rooms in the city to over 19,000. Due to the increasing number of weekend holidays and the sporting events of the near future, a…
New EasyJet flight to the Netherlands and one-time Eastern Airways flight from UK to Budapest
EasyJet is launching a new, regular flight between Budapest and Amsterdam. This is the eighth destination of the low-cost English airline that departs from Budapest, privatbankar.hu writes. The Airbus A320 type planes will fly three times a week, on Mondays,…
The Hungarian inventor behind the world-famous Illy coffee
Did you know that the famous Illy coffee was founded by a Hungarian businessman and inventor? Ferenc Illy was also the first in the world to use vacuum packaging to keep roasted coffee fresh, and his invention, the first automatic…
National security professional of Hungarian origin appointed as Trump’s deputy assistant
Sebastian Gorka, whose parents emigrated from Hungary to the UK, has been appointed as Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States, index.hu reports. Gorka announced his new position on twitter: Well the radio silence is over. Congrats to…
Meanwhile in Budapest: Hollywood stars around the city
In the past few weeks, many Hollywood stars have showed up in Budapest, including Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Lawrence, and Owen Wilson, who are working on various projects in the Hungarian capital. According to 24.hu, on Monday, Owen Wilson visited the…
The winners of the 35th Hungarian Press Photo Contest – PHOTO GALLERY
The winners of the 35th Hungarian Press Photo Contest have been announced. 2284 works by 234 photographers competed for the prestigious awards, and altogether 6259 photos were submitted in single and series categories. An exhibition of the winning photos opens…
Hungarian plane tree in competition for European Tree of the Year title
Last year, another Hungarian tree, the over 300-year-old downy oak of Bátaszék won the European Tree of the Year competition. This year, the winner of the Hungarian Tree of the Year competition, the plane tree of Jászai Mari Square in…
Minor earthquake in Budapest
An earthquake registering 2.2 on the Richter scale could be felt on Tuesday at 1:18 pm in the south of Budapest. The earthquake was registered by the instruments of the Kövesligethy Radó Seismological Observatory, as well as people in the…
New bird species spotted in Hungary for the first time – VIDEOS
A Siberian accentor was spotted for the first time in Szentendre Island last week. The species rarely ventures this far from its wintering grounds, but an unconventional discovery was made in Hungary, szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu and the Hungarian Ornithological and Nature Conservation…
‘Son of Saul’ director László Nemes wins London Film Critics’ Circle Award for Director of the Year
The winners of the 37th London Film Critics’ Circle Awards were announced on Sunday evening in the May Fair Hotel in London, 24.hu reports. 140 members of the London Film Critics’ Circle voted to decide the winners of the prestigious…