Prince of Monaco spotted in Hungarian mall – what is he doing here?

Since its opening, 30,000 people have already visited the world’s largest athletics exhibition at Etele Plaza. Prince Albert II of Monaco has also visited the exhibition. The prince is not only the head of the city-state, but also the President of the Athletics Federation of Monaco.

Albert II of Monaco in Hungary

Prince Albert II toured the exhibition on the occasion of this year’s World Athletics Championships. The exhibition presents the history of athletics, the World Championships and Hungarian athletics, Forbes reports.

Since his youth, sport has played an important role in the life of Prince Albert II. He has represented his city-state at the Winter Olympics on five previous occasions and is involved in the development of athletics as President of the Athletics Federation of Monaco and Honorary President of the International Athletics Foundation.

One of the first trips of the recently arrived monarch to Budapest was to Etele Plaza to see the MOWA Budapest exhibition, the world’s largest collection of athletics memorabilia and relics.

You can check out some pictures of Albert II HERE and HERE.

Exhibition about the World Athletics Championships

The exhibition explores the last forty years of the World Athletics Championships, the first of which was held in Helsinki in 1983, and the current host of the grand sporting event in Budapest. Several historical Hungarian athletics artefacts, which have not been on display to the public before, can be seen here.

The spectacular 600-square-metre exhibition will be on display until the last day of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, 27 August in Etele Plaza, Budapest’s smart plaza that opened two years ago. Visitors can lift the throwing equipment, touch the hurdles and marvel at the world record heights and distances achieved by the jumpers. They can experience the extraordinary performance behind the world record results.

There are also two audio photo walls, a cinema room and other LED displays playing archive competition footage, as well as a virtual reality zone where visitors can roam around the world’s first 3D virtual sports museum on MOWA’s online platform.

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