First impressions can leave visitors a little perplexed: a little too much noise, too many cars, rundown streets etc. Yet, “the pearl of the Danube” slowly reveals its treasures along the banks of the...

This village stands in the heart of the country's most stunning national park, Hortobágy (80 000ha). Containing the largest steppes of central Europe, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A horse ride ...

Pécs was a prestigious town in the Middle Ages thanks to its bishops, one of whom was the famous Janus Pannonius. The very first university in Hungary was set up here in 1367. The Ottoman period (1453...

This unspoilt 5km-long peninsula juts out into Lake Balaton as if trying to reach the opposite shore. The small village of Tihany stands on a hill. Lower down, lavender fields encircle a 30ha inner la...

It is impossible to try and resist the charm of this Baroque town, nestling in a hollow of the splendid mountain ranges of Bükk and Mátra. The town's past dates back many centuries. Conquered by the T...

Built on the flanks of two hills, this town in northern Hungary keeps watch over the Danube flowing below. A royal abode from the 11C to the 13C and a leading centre of Hungarian Catholicism, Esztergo...

Sopron or Little Prague, the former Ödenburg of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is a charming small town that has preserved virtually all the traces of its Roman, medieval and Baroque past. It is to a si...

Hungary is a mysterious place, beginning with its origins and history that have never been completely explained by historians. Its language, which developed 3,000 years ago east of the Urals, is uniqu...