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UNESCO: Budapest’s MOL Tower and Liget Project are distressing

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation released a report on 21 June 2019...
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Sziget festival’s island in Budapest taken off World Heritage recommended list

Not long before the UNESCO voted about World Heritage, the government took Hajógyári Island off the list of recommended places to earn World...
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Baroque frescoes fell victim to the renovation in Orbán’s new office?

News portal index reported earlier in the day that rare late Baroque frescoes in the refectory of the one-time Carmelite monastery "fell...
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Hungary thanks former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for release of UN documents on 1956

Katalin Bogyay, Hungary's permanent representative to the United Nations, yesterday, hosted a banquet lunch in honour of former United Nations...
Hungarian foreign minister

Hungarian foreign minister meets Jewish leaders in US

Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó met representatives of Jewish organisations in New York on Wednesday evening and assured his negotiating...
Budapest photography

Invaluable treasures: UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Hungary

Do you get more excited about visiting a place when you find out that it is part of the UNESCO World Heritage? Well, we definitely do, because...
Mohács Busójárás tradition festival

House Speaker: Mohács Busó Festival one of Europe’s biggest traditionalist events

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Must-See Hungary: Budapest – Danube Bank and Andrássy Road

The World Heritage Movement is the most successful product of UNESCO or even of the whole of the United Nations. Today, millions, even tens of...