St. Martin's Day New Wine and Goose Festival

St. Martin's New Wine and Goose Festival await visitors in the Open-Air Museum (Skanzen) in Szentendre throughout the weekend, including Martin's Day folk customs, handicrafts, themed wine tasting, autumn delicacies and handicraft fairs.

St Martin's Day used to be an important turning point in the folk’s calendar: it marked the finishing of the agricultural works, the end of the economic year in the countryside. On this day, they used to eat goose and drink new wine.

The museum's website highlights that tis is the season-closing event of Skanzen, too, and connected to the traditions, it offers a lot of gastronomic culinaria for the visitors. People used to gather in the houses, and began the community works of the wintertime. Fire burns in the ovens of the houses of Skanzen as well - you can sit down, get to know and join the traditional works of the wintertime or taste the special menu of the museum's restaurant for the event.