Sziget - Diplomacy & Trade https://dteurope.com Monthly in print | Daily on the web Thu, 18 Mar 2021 23:15:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://dteurope.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-dt_favicon-32x32.png Sziget - Diplomacy & Trade https://dteurope.com 32 32 Major Summer Youth Festivals Canceled in Hungary https://dteurope.com/news/major-summer-youth-festivals-canceled-in-hungary/ Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:05:58 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=33452 The Balaton Sound and VOLT festivals will not be held this year either, the two events will return in 2022, according to the organizer Sziget Press Office's announcement on Thursday. The news is no big surprise, as the organizers also indicate, in canceling big concerts and festivals all over Europe in a row because the […]

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]]> Record attendance at the Sziget Festival https://dteurope.com/news/record-attendance-at-the-sziget-festival/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/record-attendance-at-the-sziget-festival/ The 26th edition of one of Europe's biggest cultural – mainly music – festivals, the Sziget Festival in the Hungarian capital ended this Tuesday, having had record number of 565.000 visitors from all over the world attending the seven-day event.

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]]> 2017 Sziget Festival ends in Hungary https://dteurope.com/culture/2017-sziget-festival-ends-in-hungary/ Wed, 16 Aug 2017 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/2017-sziget-festival-ends-in-hungary/ One of Europe's biggest cultural – mainly music and arts – festivals, the Sziget Festival (this time, the 25th, jubilee edition), ended this Tuesday, having had a total number of 452.000 visitors attending the seven-day event from over a hundred countries.

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]]> Ambassadors at the Sziget Festival https://dteurope.com/diplomacy/ambassadors-at-the-sziget-festival/ Sun, 13 Aug 2017 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/ambassadors-at-the-sziget-festival/ The representatives from the embassies of eighteen countries and that of the Budapest mission of the European Commission were present at the event organized for them on the occasion of the quarter-of-a-century jubilee of the Sziget Festival.

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]]> Sziget Festival kicks off https://dteurope.com/culture/sziget-festival-kicks-off/ Tue, 08 Aug 2017 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/sziget-festival-kicks-off/ One of Europe's biggest cultural - mainly music - festivals, the Sziget Festival on Óbuda Island (hence the name) on the River Danube has opened its gates. Programs at the anniversary, 25th Sziget Festival start this Wednesday.

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]]> 25 years of sziget - on photos https://dteurope.com/culture/25-years-of-sziget-on-photos/ Mon, 10 Jul 2017 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/25-years-of-sziget-on-photos/ A photo exhibition opened at the 25th anniversary of the Sziget Festival at the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in Budapest this Tuesday. The exhibition "Sziget 25 - Festival History in Photos" is open until August 31.

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]]> Sziget Festival, as international as possible https://dteurope.com/culture/sziget-festival-as-international-as-possible/ Wed, 05 Aug 2015 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/sziget-festival-as-international-as-possible/ This year 'Szitizens' can expect great music from all over the globe, during the Sziget festival on August 10-17. The program at the Island of Freedom venue will offer a wide range of music.

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]]> Sziget festival kicks off in Budapest https://dteurope.com/culture/sziget-festival-kicks-off-in-budapest/ Sun, 10 Aug 2014 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/sziget-festival-kicks-off-in-budapest/ One of Europe's biggest cultural - and mainly music - festival, the Sziget Festival on Óbuda island (hence the name) on the River Danube opened its gates this Monday. We have for you a preview by a Dutch journalist, Maria Douwes.

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]]> NGO Ability Park at Sziget Festival honored https://dteurope.com/diplomacy/ngo-ability-park-at-sziget-festival-honored/ Tue, 14 Aug 2012 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/ngo-ability-park-at-sziget-festival-honored/ The American Ambassador to Hungary, Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis presented the Active Citizenship Award to the NGO Ability Park at the Sziget Festival in Budapest. The Park helps better understand the challenges faced by disabled people.

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]]> Sziget Festival seen in the red https://dteurope.com/culture/sziget-festival-seen-in-the-red/ Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/sziget-festival-seen-in-the-red/ Sziget Festival, one of Europe’s largest music festivals, has incurred losses this year, according to preliminary estimates, Est Media Holding, the listed owner of the event, has announced on Monday. In previous years the festival generated profit.

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]]> Sziget 2011 starts today https://dteurope.com/culture/sziget-2011-starts-today/ Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/sziget-2011-starts-today/ Budapest's Sziget Festival, one of Europe's most popular outdoor musical and cultural events kicks off today with Day Zero. The festival’s Main Stage will host the 7-time Grammy winner American pop-icon Prince.

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]]> Sziget 2010: a special EU presidency location https://dteurope.com/culture/sziget-2010-a-special-eu-presidency-location/ Thu, 27 May 2010 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/sziget-2010-a-special-eu-presidency-location/ One of the Belgian EU presidency summer event locations will be Sziget festival this year. Károly Gerendai is pleased with the cooperation. The invitation for partnership means, they count with the Sziget festival in Europe.

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]]> Sziget 2010 reloaded with pay per minute entry fees https://dteurope.com/culture/sziget-2010-reloaded-with-pay-per-minute-entry-fees/ Sun, 02 May 2010 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/sziget-2010-reloaded-with-pay-per-minute-entry-fees/ In the middle of the economic recession it sure does good for Sziget to win Vodafone as the main sponsor of the biggest summer happening. As regards entrance fees, prices will be reduced!

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