The city of Miskolc: a reimagined tourist attraction

Although Miskolc, the seat of the north-eastern Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county was for a long time conceived of as a poor industrial city with a few things to offer to visitors, recent years have seen a steady increase in investments that aim at making it an attractive alternative to other major Hungarian cities, as nlcafe.hu reports. Find out why it is no longer the case, as it was commonly thought for a long time, that there is simply nothing to do in Miskolc.

During the communist era, the city of Miskolc was designated as a centre of the iron industry, which had its toll on its cultural aspects. But data shows that in the last seven years, the number of visitors has steadily increased. Most people arrive form the capital, but others are coming from Ukraine, Slovakia and Romania, too.

Cultural events

Miskolc hosts the Cinefest every September, an international film festival often screening movies that are not shown by regular film theatres. It is also home to the Bartók Plus Opera Festival, which will be held between 8^th and 17^th June this year, debuting two contemporary operas by an American and an Italian composer as well as a reorchestrated version of the iconic Hungarian rock opera, István, a király (István the King) to honor the 35^th anniversary of the piece.