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ONLY BE BUDAPESTER
Only-Be Budapester
The House of Terror
The House of Terror, one of the most important museums in Budapest, shows the dark periods of totalitarianism that the country lived in the 20th century.
Museum of Applied Arts
The Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest possesses objects with a curious design or aesthetic that can appear in everyone´s daily life.
History Museum
The History Museum is one of the most visited, not only for the large amount of art works that it possesses but also for the reconstructed subsoils of the building.
Hungarian National Gallery
The Hungarian National Gallery is one of the most important museums in Budapest because it´s located in a place that has its own history: Buda Castle.
Hungarian National Museum
The Hungarian National Museum is the most important in the country because it possesses all the history of Hungary, from its foundation until the 1990s.
Fisherman´s Bastion and Saint Mathias Church
The Fisherman´s Bastion (or Halászbastya) is the most beautiful terrace in Budapest, situated at the shore of the Danube river. You have to visit it.
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Pavillon de Paris
The restaurant Pavillon de Paris is exclusive in Budapest. The offer high-quality French food. You can´t miss it.
Cinetrip Ruda at the Baths of Budapest
Cinetrip party features visual effects, best music and most famous DJs for attendees to dance in different pools. March 5 will be a time to attend the parties that have revolutionized the amusement of Europe. The famous Rudas baths, near one of the main bridge in the Buda side of Erzsébet híd are used exclusively by men, although women are allowed to enter the pool in the open area since just a few years ago. This beautiful bathroom was built around 1550, and restored 16 years later by Sokoli Mustafa Pasha of Buda. It consists on eight columns that support a beautiful dome, under which there is the Turkish style octagonal pool. The contrast is produced with input from the sun rays that penetrate the dome and the brilliant turquoise of the pool bottom, produces an incomparable calming effect that is one of the main virtues of this place. In the Rudas spa is where the famous Cinetrip or Magic Bath parties are held, water parties that take place regularly in various weekends throughout the year, within these ancient thermal baths. The famous Cinetrip parties were born in 1998 and with a whole array of technology they transform the resort, full of lights, dramatic lighting, visual projections by VJs masters, dancers, water gogos to enliven the atmosphere and of course with electronic music world´s best Dj exponents. This parties bring together thousands of young people from varied parts of Europe dancing in the warm water springs, as an experience like this is not possible everywhere, where the party counts with water and light, pleasure and welfare. “Parties linked to...
Fernando Botero in Budapest
Fernando Botero is a Colombian artist, whose pictures and sculptures feature characters that are fat, expressive and emphatic. His bright and colorful paintings are in part inspired by the aesthetics of top Latin artists like Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco. However, his distinctive imagery has also been influenced by classical European painting, as Botero studied in Madrid, not in his home city Bogota. His works are peppered with references to great masterpieces that any avid observer with an affinity for art can discover. This fall the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest devotes an extensive retrospective to Botero´s playful imagery, and includes his most iconic works of the last twenty years of his career, as well as new works. There are about 60 oil paintings and sculptures. Under the simple title “Fernando Botero,” the exhibition, which opened on September 23rd and runs until January 2nd, 2011, seeks to showcase Botero as a representative figure in contemporary Latin American art and shed light on his pictorial and intellectual record. The Colombian artist is undoubtedly one of the most important figures of Latin American modernity, whose work can be found in some of the most hallowed collections in Japan, Russia, Germany, Italy and, of course, Colombia. Thanks to the robust and exaggerated human forms that populate his paintings and made him internationally famous, he has been compared to Peter Paul Rubens, who, like Botero, had a weakness for human curves, especially feminine ones. His work tells stories about his beloved home country with its colorful folklore and culture. In some of his paintings you can see Colombian flags, and other...
