Easter Festivals in Hungary

Why northern hungary? Why not in Budapest?
Since easter is a traditional festival, the eastern is mostly celebtrated in the 'rural' hungary, so if you would like to have a better impact on the easter tradition in hungary, you'd better go out of budapest and see smaller places like Mezokovesd or Holloko or Szentendre

Matyo easter in Mezokovesd

12 - 13rd April

Mezokovesd is a small town, 150kms from Budapest. Easy accessable by train (1:40mins around) or car (on M3 highway).

Mezokovesd is called the capital of 'Matyo' after its unique and local type of folk art. The colourful and rich matyo paintings and clothes can be fonud normally in the museum nowadays, but the eastern bring something back from the past. The 'Hadas' district, the old part of the town with zigzag small streets, and small peasant houses, become live again as there are many things to see and do during the Matyo Easter Festival.

In the Hadas district, old peasant houses open up for public, where you can see exhibitions, everyday stuff from the 18-19th century, and see how pottery, furniture, paintings are made by handicraft artists. Meantime on the stages you can see folk dances, eat hungarian meal, try local wines and you can try an old hungarian easter tradition, the egg painting.

Painted easter eggs are still common, which are made of goose or chicken eggs, which are painted, it's a real art...see yourself and try it.

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Holloko easter

12nd-13rd April

Holloko is a World Heritage Site, as the village is a living past, looking exactly the same as it was 100 years ago. The folk costumes are still worn every day, and they livin' in the old peasant houses usually not a museum.

Holloko is close to budapest, direct buses from the Stadionok station (on the red undergronud route).

Usually the easter festival is a very popular event among tourists, so prepare for a lot of people.
The whole village will celebrate easter from early in the morning, with traditional water pouring, when boys are pouring water into the girls, whom will give them painted eggs.
The whole family can enjoy easter festival, kids can try egg painting, adults can taste wines, eat traditional easter meals (mainly meat), and together they can take a short walk up to the Castle of Holloko

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Szentendre, Easter in the skanzen

12nd-13rd April

The open air museum of Szentenre celebrate Easter in three regional units: Upper Tisza region, Kisalföld and Bakony, Balaton Highlands. Ensembles engaged in tradition conservation revive the customs of Easter time. On the festive occasion visitors are invited to attend Easter mass or service. Handicraft artists come from different parts of Hungary to show the rich traditions of Easter egg painting (by batik, engraving or applying small horse-shoes on the shell). The visitors may join them and learn these skills. Children play in the Easter-garden egg-games to honour the day: fetching, rolling, beating eggs. Others make traditional and recent but well-known Easter symbols (lamb and rabbit) out of natural materials in the play-house. In the play-yard adults and children may try their skills and strength in different popular sports and games. Puppet shows, folk music and dance-house will entertain the families during the two days. We award the winners of the competition announced in our web-site: the poets who wrote the best Easter poems. The Inn prepares traditional Easter dishes: lamb, cooked ham, horse-radish, eggs and sweet loaf.

Easy access from Budapest, by train from the nyugati train station or by boat from the boat station between the elizabeth (the white one) and the chain bridges.
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