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Pécs celebrates a special anniversary this Year

This year, Pécs celebrates a special anniversary: ​​25 years ago, the Early Christian Cemetery of Pécs / Sopianae was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. 

On the occasion of the quarter-century anniversary, the Zsolnay Heritage Management Association awaits the people of Pécs with discounts, thematic walks, special guided tours and a truly unique wine tasting between December, 1 – January, 4 – for whom all World Heritage programs and entrance fees are available at a 25% discount. Not only local visitors are awaited to roll along the paths and hear the past history of the cemetery.

Thematic programs – for adults and children … In December, several exciting thematic walks and guided tours await those interested.
A night tour with headlamps will be launched separately for adults and children, which will show the mystical face of underground Pécs. Visitors can immerse themselves in the underground cellar labyrinth of the Cella Septichora and the Little Champagne House, or take part in the thematic walk presenting the early Christian tombs. The “Treasures of the Hidden Courtyards of Pécs” program will present the otherwise unvisited corners of the city on Apáca Street; thematic historical afternoons await the youngones.

The organizers will provide a free interactive walking map with puzzles and riddles with each family ticket, allowing children to get acquainted with the world of the Roman era in a playful way.

Update by Aggie Reiter

14th Budapest Jewish and Israeli Film Festival- 2025.

Time – Venue: 26-30 November, 2025. @ Puskin Cinema – Budapest.

The 14th Budapest Jewish and Israeli Film Festival will begin on Wednesday, 26th of November through Sunday, 30th of November. The festival will be held at the Pushkin Cinema – Budapest where 20 films (8 feature films, 3 documentaries and 9 shorts) such as comedies, dramas, thrillers and documentaries. The screenings will be complemented by discussions and accompanying programs.

The audience can once again encounter Jewish and Israeli films from all over the world at the Pushkin Cinema. Within the ZsiFi 2025 program the screenings will be complemented by discussions and accompanying programs.

The festival’s films are presented in several languages ​​- English, Hebrew, German, Czech, Persian, Ukrainian, Russian and French – with Hungarian and English subtitles so that everyone can relate to them.

The festival will open on the 26th of November at 7 p.m. The opening film will be Bad Shabbos (American comedy, 2024, 84 minutes, in English, with Hungarian subtitles).
The main organizer: , JCC Budapest – Bálint House.,

Recomendation by Aggie Reiter

Harry Potter: Exhibition is coming to Szentendre/Hungary

When you enter here you will be a slave to the magic!

Venue: Green Event Hall – 3. Kalászi Road – Szentendre

The largest and most comprehensive traveling exhibition will open on February 6, 2026.

Tickets for the interactive, behind-the-scenes experience went on sale a couple of days ago. Harry Potter: The Exhibition is coming to Hungary for the first time, at 3. Kalászi Rd. – Szentendre. Tickets start at 11900HUF for adults. Visitors can also choose from special, flexible tickets that offer extra experiences, such as a separate entrance lane and souvenirs.

What your going to discover truly magical experience. Visitors can choose their own Patronus, learn fabulous spells, test their skills in Quidditch, and experience the magic spell with portion number 9.

Discover iconic behind-the-scenes moments from some of your favorite Harry Potter™ movies for a celebration of the film-making magic. It would be a shame to miss … a day when visitors roll along in the world of Harry Potter into a world of magical imagination. Just a few of the things you can see and do?
Hogwarts Great Hall , life-size installations, sets, sound effects … Potions Room – Professor Snape’s shadow may appear … the Sorting Hat interactive part – find out which house you’re sorted into…
Digital experiences … wand tasks, mook-making, Quidditch virtual rehearsals … Original film props and costumes, clothes, props, set pieces… etc.

Harry Potter: The Exhibition is coming to Hungary for the first time, at Kalászi út 3 in Szentendre. Tickets start at 11900HUF for adults. Visitors can also choose from special, flexible tickets that offer extra experiences, such as a separate entrance lane and souvenirs.

The behind-the-scenes exhibition celebrates iconic moments, characters, locations and magical creatures from the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films, and showcases the wonders of the expanded world of Harry Potter, including the Tony® Award-winning Broadway production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Visitors can walk among beautifully crafted sets that recreate unforgettable scenes from the films and get up close and personal with original costumes, props and magical objects.

Full exhibition hours from Monday to Sunday:
Monday: 11a.m. – 7 p.m. last entry time: 5.30 p.m.
Tuesday: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. last entry time: 5.30 p.m.
Wednesday: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. last entry time: 5.30 p.m.
Thursday: 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. last entry time: 6.30 p.m.
Friday: 11 a.m. – 9 p.m. last entry time: 7.30 p.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m. – 9 p.m. last entry time: 7.30 p.m.
Sunday: 9 a.m. – 8 p.m. last entry time: 6.30 p.m.

The exhibit was created by Warner Bros. Discovery Global Experiences in partnership with Imagine Exhibitions, Inc. and Eventim Live.

Recommender Aggie Reiter

The Resurrected Notre-Dame – Film premiere @ Hungary’s cinemas from November, 20.2025.

Fascinating French documentary about the cathedral’s rebirth @ Hungary’s cinemas from November, 20. 2025.

In April 2019, the entire world was shocked when Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the most important masterpieces of medieval architecture, was engulfed in flames. However, the tragedy was followed by an unprecedented collaboration. Over five years, one of the most complex restoration projects in Europe was carried out, involving 340000 donors, 2000 craftsmen and hundreds of professional workshops.

This monumental human and technical undertaking is presented in the French documentary Notre-Dame Resurrected, distributed by Pannonia Entertainment Ltd.

The film, made up of over 350 hours of footage, offers an exceptional insight into the daily lives of restorers, conservationists, masons, carpenters, glass painters, organ restorers and senior engineers. The crew was able to follow the reconstruction from 2020 to 2024 with almost unprecedented access: from the first reinforcement works, to the rebirth of the roof, to the reconstruction of the iconic tower.

The reconstruction of Notre-Dame is also impressive in numbers:1000 m³ of stone for the new vaults and walls … 100 meters of new wooden roof structure above the main nave … four thousand square meters m² of freshly installed lead sheeting on the roof … 41 thousand square meters of cleaned stone surface … 846 million euros donation with support from 150 countries

The film goes beyond statistics … It tells human stories and shows the crafts that, 850 years later, are still based on the same hand movements. The legacy of the medieval journeymen lives on in today’s French workshops. This passion and expertise shine through every frame of the documentary.

By 2024, restorers had returned Notre-Dame to the light that a 14th-century pilgrim might have seen: as if the medieval guilds had only momentarily abandoned the building.

Recommender Aggie Reiter

Solar System Phenomena & Distant Galaxies.


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8th National Astrophotography Exhibition – Budapest

Early Saturday evening was taken to distant galaxies on the opening of the astro-images at the Museum of Natural History, whereas the largest astrophotography event of the year November, 15. took place in its exhibition hall. The exhibition is built around three themes … Astroscapes, the Solar System, and the world of stars and Galaxies. One of the main characters is to be an innovative image of the M33 galaxy, which demonstrates a new image processing technique.

This year was the 8th Star-Photos Exhibition, showing the hundred most beautiful astrophotos which were selected from the works of 66 astrophotographers of our country. After the presentation the audience could have had walk around to gaze the 100 unbelievable images from the year’s greatest astrophotographers.The exhibition was created by cca. 40 people. The Spanish Astrological Association members were also was present at the opening of the exhibition. Several astrophotographers have already received international prizes at several exhibitions. Here awards, prizes on site were handle out. This year, five images by seven Hungarian photographers were included in the international best, one of which won an award. The exhibition thus proves once again that Hungarian astrophotography is at the international forefront. This exhibition can be viewed for a few months, therefore do not miss to plan your’s before your late and miss it. All individuals are welcomed to feel like being “out of space” and last but not least children, may look at these photosgraphs with wide eyes open, have a real experience, getting to know the breathtaking images of the sky above the earth that tell stories beyond the earth.

Riport & snaps by Aggie Reiter

The latest film in the horror franchise is coming to HBO Max

Among the Demons: Last Rites – Available on HBO Max.

The latest film in the horror franchise will be released on HBO Max on November 21, making all of the Among the Demons films available on the streaming platform.

Among the Demons: Last Rites broke records upon its September theatrical debut, achieving the biggest global opening weekend of all time for a horror film, thus definitively ensuring that AMONG THE DEMONS is the most successful horror franchise ever. The film attracted more than 247 thousand viewers in Hungary!

The film stars: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Mia Tomlinson, Ben Hardy, Tony Spera, Steve Coulter, Rebecca Calder, Elliot Cowan, Beau Gadsdon, Kíla Lord Cassidy, John Brotherton and Shannon Kook.

The Warrens’ well-documented exorcism series has reached its final episode. The couple has saved innocent people from the afterlife more than a thousand times. But now something has changed. Routine doesn’t help. Courage doesn’t help. And maybe the emissaries of the afterlife weren’t the family of eight the Warrens and their daughter are rushing to save.

Update by Aggie Reiter

Rolling Stones Tribute Concert @ the Lurdy Cinema Budapest

Saturday, November,15.

Tomorrow is Saturday, that means on November 15th, the Rolling Stones’ career spanning over six decades will be in focus at the Lurdy Cinema.

The Stoned tribute band, formed in 2003, will give a concert, which has evolved from a few crazy Stones fans’ occasional home gigs into a band that plays only and exclusively – 100% – Rolling Stones. The dedication and humility of the members of Stoned – Árpád Jókay guitar, vocals, Gyula Bacsa piano, Zoltán Dudinszky saxophone, Zoltán Bereczki bass guitar and Csaba Zsiros drums – is the guarantee that they can perform the songs of the “World’s Best Rock’n’Roll Band” at an increasingly high level. The band has already “recorded” more than a hundred Rolling Stones concerts, which also has a great influence on their own performance style, helping them to present the Stones’ oeuvre as authentically as possible. The concert will feature songs from all eras of the Rolling Stones’ history, from the biggest and most well-known hits to fan rarities, and a variety of styles will be featured.
The concert will be followed by a screening of the concert film The Rolling Stones – Sweet Summer Sun – Hyde Park Live, which was filmed during the Stones’ historic and triumphant return in 2013. 100,000 fans of all ages watched and listened with equal enthusiasm as the band once again gave a five-star concert. This amazing and unique concert, and the film recorded here, is the perfect way to celebrate the music of the Rolling Stones with fans right where they started, on their own stage in their hometown. In the film – which also commemorates Charlie Watts, who passed away in August 2021 – the entire concert, all the songs performed there, can be seen and heard, with 21st century technology, digital 5.1 sound

Furthermore details on the Lurdy Mozi website.

Update by Aggie Reiter

“Art Is for Everybody” … Absolut pays tribute to the Art of Keith Haring this year.

Just a while ago the Absolut Vodka celebrated creativity with a new, limited-time bottle, this time focusing on the work of one of the most famous representatives of pop art, Keith Haring. The Absolut Haring Artist-Edition brings Haring’s vibrant and energetic world closer to new generations, almost four decades after the artist first painted the legendary bottle in 1986. Last year, the brand paid tribute to Andy Warhol with a special edition, so now two pop art legends “meet” in this special collaboration.

Keith Haring believes that art was for everyone, and his iconic street art pieces in 1980s New York City conveyed a vibrant energy to every city dweller. The Absolut Haring Artist-Edition carries on this spirit, bringing the artist’s original 1986 work to life with vibrant colors, the artist’s handwriting, and his signature dancing figures fused into the glass. “True art is inclusive, inspiring, and accessible to everyone,” explains Rita Hruska, Marketing Director of Pernod-Ricard Hungary. “Keith Haring’s works follow the same philosophy, creating a world full of energy with vibrant colors and dynamic shapes. With the Absolut Haring bottle, invites the younger generation to experience this spirit.”

Absolut’s collaboration with contemporary artists from various fields dates back to the mid 80s, when the brand first asked renowned artists to reimagine glass. Between 1985 and 2004, more than 850 unique works were created by 1500 artists.

Almost forty years ago, at Warhol’s suggestion, Keith Haring became the second artist to reimagine the Absolut bottle. The brand first collaborated with the artist in 1986, and in 2025, it unveiled its first bottle specifically inspired by Keith Haring, drawing inspiration from the artist’s original work. The bottle features Keith Haring’s iconic signature and the design is vibrant with life: the embossed, dancing figures come to life in Haring’s signature red and yellow, creating a sharp contrast with the iconic Absolut blue. The neck of the bottle is adorned with the hand-drawn Absolut medallion, featuring a portrait of the founder, LO Smith, adding a personal touch to the bottle. The result is a 3dimensional work of art is touc of a joy to toast.

As Haring once said: “Art and enjoyment is for everyone”, which reflects Absolut’s credo, as the brand has always believed that art and culture belong to everybody.

The limited edition Absolut Haring bottle will be available in stores in more than 40 countries worldwide, including Hungary from mid-October.

Update by Aggie Reiter

You Bet Your Gonna Love it @ Tori Amos Concert – Budapest

Since her debut album Little Earthquakes in 1992, the North Carolina-born singer, pianist, and songwriter has built a body of work characterized by fearless storytelling and a unique musical voice.
In Times of Dragons, the singer’s eighteenth studio album, is a worthy continuation of her oeuvre to date: a sweeping, lyrical journey of perseverance and spiritual awakening, where the desire for freedom confronts the forces that seek to dominate and silence the world. “In Times of Dragons is a metaphorical story about the struggle between democracy and tyranny, reflecting the current, deliberately created and horrific decline of democracy – by the actions of the ‘dictator-believing lizard monsters’ who are usurping America,” said Tori Amos.

The album’s release will be accompanied by the artist’s biggest European tour in a decade, which will take her through seventeen countries between April and May 2026. This time, she will be accompanied by her old, loyal musical partners: musical director and bassist Jon Evans, drummer Ash Soan, and three talented backing vocalists: Liv Gibson, Deni Hlavlinka and Hadley Kennary. The tour concerts will feature songs from the new album – In Times of Dragons, as well as the most memorable compositions of the artist’s 35-year, unparalleled career, from a great oeuvre that has earned her eight Grammy nominations and more than has become a defining chapter in contemporary music with twelve million albums sold. With In Times of Dragons, he once again masterfully intertwines his political and personal message, in a deeply felt, thought-provoking work that resonates with the urgent, disturbing atmosphere of the present, while remaining true to his artistic courage and unique musical vision.

Tori Amos has the capability of turning a beautiful song into something even more astounding, with overwhelming emotions.

Ticket sales already began … more information (external link)

Recommedner Aggie Reiter

25th Savaria Historical Carnival @ Szombathely

Savaria Historical Carnival  August 13–16, 2026.

The “modern” carnival will be 25 years old in 2026.

Szombathely’s largest and most popular event, the Savaria Historical Carnival, will celebrate her the 25th anniversary of its “modern history” next year. The event has been a prominent heritage tourism event in the Western Transdanubia region since 2000, attracting hundreds-and-thousands of people to the city every year.

Today, the festival has become a unique, historicizing, high-quality event in Szombathely and Vas counties, attracting the largest audience.

In order to celebrate the 2026 jubilee in a worthy manner, preparations have already begun this year.

As a first step, the organizers have determined the date of next year’s carnival, carefully considering the dates of national festivals and major jubilee events.

By announcing the date early, their goal is to reach the widest possible audience: artists, performers, merchants, and visitors alike and to begin joint preparations for the quarter-century celebration in time.

The anniversary carnival will offer special programs, novelties and festive surprises for all those who would like to be part of the 25th anniversary Savaria Historical Carnival experience.

Usually do not share recommendation months-and-months earlier than acctually to programs but this time maybe anyway worthwhile to mark the date in your callender will not be missed to visit.

Update by Aggie Reiter