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According to turizmus.com, the Danubius Hotel in Hungary will be temporarily closed from November 1st until February 28th, 2023. The decision is justified by the fact that it is difficult to operate the 499-room hotel efficiently in the winter season with the current occupancy forecasts.
The city of Budapest, Political Capital and the Democracy Institute of the Central European University will hold an international conference on September 21-22 on the impacts of the war in Ukraine, the energy and climate crisis, as well as on “state-financed disinformation campaigns”, the Mayor’s Office told MTI.
We can run into several world stars in the Hungarian capital these days, including actor Tom Holland.
A tragic accident took place on Sunday on the free beach of Szigetcsép in Pest County, where a 20-year-old boy drowned in the Danube, the Pest County Search and Rescue Service said on its Facebook page.
On Sunday, the Budapest unit of the Hungarian Children’s Rescue Foundation received an alarm in Pilis from a two-year-old girl who fell into the pool and could not save her life after a long struggle, the foundation said on its Facebook page on Monday.
The Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) is hosting one of Europe’s largest international university conferences.
John Legend’s summer concert in Budapest is canceled. The June 30 performance of the multiple Grammy-winning soul R&B performer, which would have been in the Sports Arena, is delayed due to the Ukrainian-Russian war.
Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony and Rafał Trzaskowski, his Warsaw counterpart, marked the Day of Polish-Hungarian Friendship in a joint video posted on Karácsony’s Facebook page.
The Budapest Spring Festival will offer 170 programmes including concerts, theatre performances and dance events between April 29 and May 15, the organisers have said.
A total of 4,002 refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine, 308 of them children, arrived in Budapest by train on Monday, Budapest police (BRFK) has said.
