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Gardenexpo
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23 March 2012.
10.00-
Papp László Budapest Sportaréna
Budapest XIV. Stefánia út 2.
Nearest metro stop: “Stadionok”
Telephone: +36-1-422-2600
This is the 6nd Gardenexpo, an outdoor exhibition.
Garden for everyone, everything about gardens!
Budapest Spring Wine Festival

The 3 days of Easter
7-8-9 April 2012.
10-24 every day.
Adddress: Városháza park (just behind the City Hall, near “Deák square” metro stop
(It is the the only meeting point of the 3 metro lines of Budapest.)
No entrance fee.
Apartment near Budapest Wine Festival
You can taste a lot of good Hungarian wines.
The most famous exhibitors: Bock winery, Vincze, Polgár and also winemaker of the year 2007: Frittmann brothers.
Spring Wine Festival is an opportunity to present the growing culture of wine-drinking to the people of Budapest as well as visitors to our city. It is also a chance for the wine producers and sellers to present their wares to the wine audience especially as the festival coincides with both Easter and the Budapest Spring Festival.
Nightwish Concert
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29 April 2012.
19.00.
Papp László Budapest Sportaréna
Budapest XIV. Stefánia út 2.
Nearest metro stop: “Stadionok”
Telephone: +36-1-422-2600
The Finnish simphonic metal band comes to Budapest again.
Now the singer is Anette Olzon, not Tarja Turunen, but the new albums of the band are also very popular also with her voice, the “Dark Passion Play” and the Imaginaerum.
Guest: Battle beast (Finnland).
Pannon Wine Festival at the City Park

11-13 June 2012.
Address: around Castle of Vajdahunyad, at the City park
Nearest metro stop: “Széchenyi fürdő”.
If you like wines and cheese, it is the best, if you come to the City park.
Here you can taste the best wines of the best Hungarian winemakers:
Bock, Tamás Gere,Attila Gere, Polgár, Sauska (from Villány)
Takler, Sebestyén, Dúzsi, Bodri, Szeleshát (from Szekszárd),Demeter, Kovács Nimród, Dula (from Eger),
Gróf Degenfeld and Tokaj Hétszőlő Winery from Tokaj.
Free entrance.
You can buy there tasting glass too, if you want it.
The new Major of Budapest is Mr. István Tarlós
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After the election Budapest has a new Major. His name is István Tarlós. He is 62 years old. He was the major of Óbuda (the 3rd district of Budapest) for 16 years, then he leaded the fraction of the right-handed party “FIDESZ” at the City Hall. This party won the parlamentary election in this spring and has 68 % at the Hungarian Parliament.
Now this party won the local election in 3 October 2010, in the capital too.
Allée - the newest shopping center of Budapest
Allée, the newest shopping center of Budapest opened.
There is an extra large Interspar, Electroworld, Libri bookstore, Sony shop, wine store, sport megastore, non stop fitness room, several restaurants and cinemas inside.
Address:
district 11
Október 23. street
Apartment in Budapest, nearby Allée shopping center
Allee will be located at a plot easily accessible both from Buda and Pest, by public transport too, on the well known spot of the former Buda Skála.
Website: www.allee.hu
Christmas Fair in Budapest centre
19. November - 29. December 2011.
Every year there is a Christmas fair in Budapest, at the Vörösmarty square in December.
2010 it is being held for the 12th time, with events.
The main attraction will be the traditional Christmas Market on Vörösmarty Square, near the Chain Bridge. This well established event – one of the largest of its type in Europe – has become an indispensable part of the build-up to the festive season. It is the capital’s largest public event outside the main tourist season, and is very popular with locals and visitors alike.
Budapest apartments next to the Christmas fair
You can taste here wine or eat something too, if you want it. There are a lot of different sausages, wines and brandys too in the middle of the square. And you can buy presents too of course.
David Guetta Concert in Budapest
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17 December 2011.
20.00.
HUNGEXPO Budapest Fair Center G Hall
Budapest X. Albertirsai út 10.
Entrance: Gate I and III
Phone number: +361-263-6000
The French pop star comes back to Hungary again with the songs of “Nothing but the Beat” album
X-Faktor-concert in Budapest
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21 December 2011.
19.00.
Papp László Budapest Sportaréna
Budapest XIV. Stefánia út 2.
Nearest metro stop: “Stadionok”
Phone number: +36-1-422-2600
12 new stars of Hungary and their mentors will sing together, just a few days after the final!
Songs of Nino Rota
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22 December 2011.
19.30.
Budapest Kongresszusi Központ (Budapest Congress Centre & World Trade Center)
Budapest XII. Jagelló utca 1-3.
Phone number: +36-1-372-5429
Nino Rota was one of the most famous film music composer.
He was born 100 years ago.
You can hear in Budapest now his several hits, the music of God Father, Romeo and Juliet, Amarcord, The Sweet Life, La Strada, Cabiria nights, 8 and a half etc.








