Budapest: Paris of the East

Flick through the history of Budapest and it’s abundantly clear that for every flourishing of the arts and music,

Hungarian State Folk Ensemble

for every golden decade filled with pastries and coffee,



Hungarian Kremes

residents have had to endure less lovely periods. Suffering invasions by the Turks, the Germans, and the Communists,

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956

the city’s Magyarians developed a taste for both decadence and rebellion, tempered by a sunny resignation.