What looks at a glance like a hilly section of forested landscape is actually a new greenery covered natural history museum by influential studio the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). The energy efficient ...

In November 1847, the Pozsony Diet was opened by the emperor of the Austrian empire: Ferdinand. At that time, no one could have imagined this would be the last feudal Diet in Hungarian history. That ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The bountiful creative milieu of 19th- and early-20th-century Paris, teeming with such artistic giants as Claude Monet, Amedeo Modigliani and Pablo Picasso, ...

Most European countries have the Romans to thank for their wine industry. But Hungary, with nearly 100 varietals and 22 wine-growing regions, may predate even Julius Caesar. The written proof ...

Steve Inskeep talks to Stefano Bottoni, a historian at the Hungarian Academy of Science, about Hungary's past experiences of migration, and how that influences its present attitudes toward migrants.

MIKLOS HORTHY, Hungary's wartime leader, whose birthday is today, is enjoying a controversial renaissance. This weekend the mayor of Csókakő, a picturesque village west of Budapest, inaugurated a bust ...

Flick through a Hungarian history book for high school students, and you’re left in no doubt about the government’s view on migrants. The section on “Multiculturalism” opens with a photo of refugees ...

Editor’s Note: Lydia Gall is the Eastern Europe and Balkans researcher at Human Rights Watch. The opinions in the article below belong to the author. “We came from wars and places where governments ...