The Advent Feast at the Basilica – a must-visit Christmas market in the heart of Budapest
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Discover Hungary’s most acclaimed Christmas market: The Advent Feast at the Basilica is blending Central European traditions and modern attractions, while turning the iconic St. Stephen’s Square into a 3D cinema.
Christmas spirit sparkles in front of Budapest’s grandest cathedral during the 7th annual Advent Feast at the Basilica, an open-air festive-season market welcoming everyone with delightful gift items and delicious Hungarian and international food, like the all-time favourite ‘flódni’ cake, the Hungaricum chimney cake, mouth-watering burgers, and a range of fish dishes.
Free attractions include ice-skating for children (with skate rental and weekend skating lessons for kids under 14) in a central rink that surrounds a towering Christmas tree.
From November 24th through January 1st, discover this enchanted city-center Christmas celebration rich with Central European holiday traditions, which also features modern elements like eco-friendly practices, flash mobs, a wide range of Hungary’s best contemporary hand-crafted products, and monumental light shows that – when seen with 3D glasses – will give a new dimension to the façade of St. Stephen’s Basilica, which serves as a movie screen several times every evening.
The Christmas tale is projected onto the façade of the Basilica, a 1000 m2 “screen”, with the help of four laser projectors. “While in previous years we focused on effects, this year we wanted to dazzle the visitors of the market with a lovely tale. Due to its detailed surface, designing a videomapping on the Basilica is a complicated task in itself, so animating the story of Santa Claus and his gingerbread helpers in stereo 3D was a real challenge” said VFX supervisor Ádám Herczeg.
