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So, who are these Hungarians? It is not (yet) precisely known. It seems certain they arrived somewhere from Asia. Their nearest kinship is with distant "small" peoples.

Hungary, the treasure box of Europe lies in the heart of the continent, in the middle of the Carpathian Basin, in the valley of the Danube River. With regard to its location, world languages generally define it as: Eastern Europe. In fact, the country is situated in the center of the continent, in Central Europe, in its eastern part: this is the Carpathian Basin, where one thousand years ago, visitors already found a Hungarian state.

The landscape is so diverse, one can find everything iamginable, starting with the bottom of the Alps, an unbelievably green area in the southwest part of the country and the historic town of Sopron through the Hungarian sea, Lake Balaton and Budapest and the scenic Danube Bend to the great plain, widely-known caves and broad vineyards of the east.

This small country is one of the great survivors of history: states and empires emerged, expanded or disintegrated and disappeared around it. Hungary and the Hungarian nation survived the devastation of the Tartars and Turks, Habsburgs and Russians in the ring of the great Carpathian Mountains; survived the fact that it belonged among the losers of both world wars. A stormy history ? The national anthem describes the Hungarians as "people torn by fate".

Do extra-terrestrial beings exist? - the Nobel Prize winning Italian physicist, Enrico Fermi, was once asked by his disciples in California. Of course, Fermi answered - they are already here among us. They are called Hungarians...

You are welcome here, in the homeland of the extra-terrestrial beings. Why did Fermi think this about these people? Because Hollywood's dream factories were partly built by Hungarian producers, directors, writers and cameramen? Or because - as the saying goes - Hungarians were created by God to sit on horseback?

Perhaps because Bela Bartok's music in his own time was considered extra-terrestrial by many? Maybe because Hungary – despite the size of its population – has given 12 Noble Prize winners over the years?

Or because of the Hungarian language, which does not resemble any world language and sounds so strange to others?

So we are not extra-terrestrials. We learnt and became tempered in the tormenting storms of the world: you can experience a particular organic link between the old and new, between history and the present-day in this country, which is still keenly safeguarding its traditions, culture and arts, but was always perceptive to what is new, different and the future.

Do you know that one of the centers of the Renaissance was here in the 15th century? That the Hungarian statehood is more than 1,000 years old? That after 1945 the first armed revolution against the Soviets took place in Hungary? That the iron curtain was dismantled on the frontier of Hungary and Austria?

Hungary is the gate of the east and of the west, with its special location it has always been of strategic importance. Its location is unique, anyway. It is cut in half by one of Europe's greatest rivers, the Danube (Duna), which fundamentally defines the face of the country.

In Hungary, you can see regions with a particular atmosphere, fabulous villages, churches and castles. You are welcome in Budapest , which many consider to be one of the finest cities of Europe. If you are fond of tasty food, and exclusive wines, this is the place that you will like!

Did you know……?

…… that one of Europe's largest stalactite caves is Baradla-cave in the north part of Hungary that stretches to Slovakia and is part of the World Heritage?

…… that Sopron is called the town of fidelity? In 1921 on a referendum the inhabitants' expressed their wish to stay a part of Hungary rather than joining Austria. It was a significant result, especially because at that time most of the inhabitants were of German origin.

…… that the freshwater sponge, originated in India, lives only in the Hungarian Sea, Lake Balaton in Europe?

…… that Veszprém is the town of queens because King Stephen's wife, Gizella of Bavaria, chose Veszprém for her residence? The deed founding the Benedictine Abbey in Pannonhalma (dated 1002) mentions Veszprém's episcopate and St. Michael's Church, the church which she had built. The Veszprém Castle and the attached lands, owned originally by the king and queen, gradually became the property of St. Michael's Vicarage - the episcopate and the chapter - in the 11th and 12th centuries. The royal throne was placed in the sanctuary, and the Queen's crown was kept in the cathedral's treasury. Along with this, the town's bishops were given several privileges: In 1216 the bishops were officially granted the right to crown the queens and to run the chancellery office.

…. that Hungary's highest point is the Kékes peak in the Northern Hills? It is slowly getting higher and higher, it is 1016 m as of recent measures.

…… that Budapest is the only capital in the world where caves can be found?

…… that vitamin C was discovered by Nobel Prize winner Albert Szent-Györgyi?

…… that Lake Balaton, the Hungarian 'Sea' is Central-Europe's largest lake? Its length is 77 km, surface is 600 sqm, and its deepest point is 12.4 meters. Its silky water and slob helps fatigue and anemia.

…… that Hungary's geographical center is the village of Pusztavacs?

…… that the river Zagyva is the only river in Hungary that has its source within the country?

…… that Budapest is one of the few cities in Europe with two Roman amphitheatres?

…… that the real inventor of the airship was the Hungarian Dávid Schwarz, from whom Zeppelin bought the licence?

…… that Dénes Gábor got the Nobel Prize for discovering the concept of the holograph?

…… that in addition to all of these, Hungarian scientists invented the krypton-bulb, match, tungsten filament, alternating current and radioactive tracing?

…… that Debrecen is the “town of civil inhabitants”? Here's the story: At the end of the 17th century when the Turkish occupation came to an end, all of Hungary was ruled by the Habsburgs. At that time Debrecen was given the title of Imperial Free City, but this recognition was coupled with a strong re-Catholicising and Germanizing campaign on the part of the government. The stubborn Protestant (or, to be more precise, Calvinist) citizens of Debrecen, the „Calvinist Rome,” resisted the king's plan. At that time “civil” was a pejorative attribute, but it stuck to the name of the town. This “civil society” implied a Hungarian, Protestant culture that was an Eastern European mixture of anti-Habsburg resistance, the struggle for autonomy, and urbanization in the Great Plain.