Hungarian culture

Hungary's culture comprises a diverse set of variants along the Hungarian territory, where a lot of Budapest journey are, with diverse and varied from the capital Budapest, on the Danube, to the great plain which extends to the border with Ukraine. Until 1918 Hungary accounted for half of the territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It is a country with a rich tradition spanning folk crafts such as embroidery, carvings or painted pottery and buildings or musical events. Hungarian music ranges from romantic rhapsodies of Liszt to the music of the Hungarian gypsies or Roma music.

It is also historically rich Hungarian literature, with many poets and writers who, despite exceptions like Sandor Marai or Imre Kertész, applauded in recent times, are not particularly well known outside the country. This lack of Hungarian literature has been linked to the limitations imposed by the Hungarian Finno-Ugric language family. The writer Imre Kertesz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002. Meanwhile Péter Esterházy is well known in Austria and Germany and Magda Szabó is achieving some fame in Western Europe. Hungary is home to the largest synagogue in Europe, the Great Synagogue in Budapest, and the largest spa in Europe. Travelling to Hungary can be very exciting, Hungary is also the third largest church in Europe, the Basilica of Esztergom, and also find the second largest abbey grounds in the world, Abbey Pannonhalma. In Pécs is the largest necropolis of early Christianity outside Italy. The own music of Hungary consists mainly of traditional folk music and classical composers such as Liszt product, Franz Schmidt, Dohnányi, Bartók, Kodály, or Rózsa.

The traditional Hungarian music is characterized by a strong dactylic rhythm as in the stressed syllable Hungarian invariably corresponds with the first syllable of each word. Hungary also has a number of contemporary or modern composers of classical music such as György Ligeti, György Kurtág, Péter Eötvös or Zoltán Jeney and when we come to Hungary with tourguide, we can listen to  classical hungarian musics.