Etyekwood, the studio theme park

Etyekwood, Hungary's first movie studio theme park is located only 18 miles from Budapest, in Etyek. The vistor's center of the Korda Studios is the first movie theme park in Hungary.

You can walk through two urban scenes: the streets of New York next to the reneissance Rome. Update: From 8 February 2012 the scenes of Borgias TV series can be visited, and some new renaissance scenery as well. With these new attractions an area of 10 ha can be discovered during an advanced studio tour.

Discover the evolution of the movie tricks. You can touch and try at everything from the animation through set designs to post-production.

There is an exhibition for presenting the life of Sándor Korda and his brothers, Zoltán and Vince. They was greatest figures in Brithis and American film produdction and the development of film technology.

After the exciting studio tour you can have a meal in the park's restaurant together with the celebs.

Korda Filmpark: 2091 Etyek

Opening hours: Wednesday-Sunday: 10.00 - 18.00; Monday-Tuesday: closed

Korda Filmpark

Tickets: 2500 HUF/adult on weekdays and 3000 HUF/adult on weekends. You have to book the tickets in advance. Inquire for tickets and transfer booking here: Korda Filmpark tickets and transfer

National Holidays of Hungary 2012

March 15: National Day
April 8: Easter
April 9: Easter Monday
May 1: Labor Day
May 27: Pentecost
May 28:  Pentecost Monday
August 20: St. Stephen’s Day
October 23: National Day
November 1: All Saint’s Day
December 25-26: Christmas

The shops, supermarkets and hypermarkets are closed these days.

Sopron Tourist Attractions

Author: Komal

Location: On the Northern border of Hungary, near Lake Neusiedl

Language: Hungarian

Time Zone: UTC+1

Driving: Right Side

Attractions: Tuztorony, Loyalty Gate, Storno-House, Kecske Templom, Old Synagogue

Located on the Austrian Border, the small city of Sopron is admired for its old world charm. It is a bilingual city, with both Hungarian and German being prominent languages. The beautiful baroque-styled buildings that were built in the 1700s add a medieval charm to the ancient roman splendor of the city. Sopron receives majority of its business from Austria. Situated closer to Vienna (70km) in Austria and Bratislava (77km) in Slovakia than to Budapest (Hungary's Capital), the city nevertheless is still close to its Hungarian roots. In fact, it is so loyal to Hungary that it is often called Civitas Fidelissima (The Most Loyal Town). Sopron's German-speaking culture and heritage was highly suppressed during the Cold War, but is now fast resurging. The city is very close to the Iron Curtain, which was the symbol of European division up until 1991, when the Cold War ended. In the following lines, we would take you through brief tour of this city and tell you the most exciting places to see and things to do when you are in Sopron.

Places To See In Sopron

The Fire Tower (Tuztorony)

The number one attraction in Sopron is the Tuztorony. It is the emblem of Sopron. The building itself is unique, since its foundations are Roman, while the lower square base is from 14th century. The cylindrical center with the Tuscan arcade is from the Renaissance age. The upper part is a clock tower with a multi-storied onion dome which was added from 1681-82, following a massive fire in the city. This 222 ft high tower provides tourists wonderful view of the city.

The Loyalty Gate

To the south of the fire tower is the Loyalty Gate, presented to the town in 1921 by the government of Budapest. Sopron was part of the counties that were initially awarded to Austria in the Treaty of Saint Germain in 1919. However, after local unrest and a local referendum on December 14, 1921, with 65% voting for Hungary, Sopron (along with eight villages close by) was ceded to Hungary. The gate was presented to mark this occasion. Every year December 14 is a holiday to mark the occasion.

Storno-House (Museum)

Standing next to the tower is the Storno House, one of the finest palaces of the town. Built in the Middle Ages, the museum boasts of housing a diverse collection of collectibles. Right from the old porcelain artifacts, to ancient furniture, paintings, guild shops, traditional wood carving and ceramics relics, the museum is sure to leave you amazed and startled. However, it is not just the lavish interiors that are going to weave the magic. The museum flaunts of having Baroque exterior that dates back to the 18th century. The building also has a lovely courtyard that is formed from beautiful Renaissance arcades.

Kecske Templom (Goat's Church)

At the southern side of City Square is the Goat's Church or Mary Church (Kecske templom). The popular legend related to this temple is of a treasure, which was scraped out of the ground by a goat and was buried when the church was built. The church was built between 1280 and 1491. There is well preserved Gothic decoration on the church, while the facade and interior are in Late Baroque/Rococo style. Following the dissolution of the Franciscan order in 1787, the church was used as a barn, before it was passed on to the Benedictines.

Old Synagogue

One of the oldest synagogues in Europe, from 1300-20, it was the first house of prayer of the Jewish community in Sopron. Since non catholic houses of prayer were not allowed in the city; the synagogue was styled in such a manner that the actual prayer house was located in the interior, while the front side was used as shops. Under a high pyramid roof, the Old Synagogue consists of a large two-storied prayer hall, a prayer hall for women (joined to one other only by observation slits) and the ritual bath. The synagogue with both prayer halls was converted into residential houses and remained so, until after the Second World War, when it was restored.

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Wellness Weekend in Egerszalok

Last weekend my husband and me were a long wellness weekend in Egerszalok, the Hungarian Pamukkale.

Egerszalók is a small village 7 km from the famous wine city, Eger, at the foot of the Mátra Mountain. The most important sight is the thermal spring breaking out in the southern part of the village with the salthill created by the spring.

Until the summer of 2007 the village has a small nomad thermal bath with two open-air pools and without any buildings and infrastructure.  It was funny to arrive at the bath in bathrobe in the snowy winter. We just took the bathrope down and splashed into the steaming hot water. The best program of the bath was the night bath: it was opened till late night. A lot of friends from Budapest often took the 120 km long journey to Egerszalók after the work for  just splashing in the night.

And the changes had to come. In the beginning of the 2000 years the plans of the development were born.  The locals and the fans protested. The modern thermal bath with 17 pools (whirpools, thermal pools), the most of them are covered,  was opened in the summer of 2007. And everything was changed. Instead of the cheap night bath a more expensive entertainment bath was born. Nowadays the friend from Budapest  don’t travel to Egerszalók for a night bath, Egerszalók is a weekend program.

In the same time in the neighbouring village, Demjén, was built an other thermal bath with 5 outdoor pools and some slides. This bath use the same thermal spring like Egerszalók. Last year two covered pools were built. With the cheap prices and the open-air freedom it became the competion of the Egerszalók complex very soon. And it is open till 2 o’clock at night.

In the surroundings of the Egerszalók thermal bath some hotels were built in the last few years. In the village we can find guest houses and aparments for staying.

The newest hotel of Egerszalók is the Saliris Resort**** opened in 2010 is under the roofs of the thermal bath. The room prices include the free entrance to the thermal bath.

The Saliris Resort deliberately does not follow current fashion trends since here the natural environment is the key to everything: in the interior areas materials in earthy colours exude elegance. That is true for example of the Pakistani salt tiles that lend the bar and reception a special atmosphere, the Makassar ebony that gives the public areas their air of distinction and elegance and the handmade unique wallpapers.

The interior design of the hotel was guided by the principle that guests should be surrounded by premium-quality materials in the rooms too.

The Saliris Resort has 203 rooms: 190 standard rooms (of which 50 are connecting), 9 suites, 1 presidential suite and 3 disabled-accessible rooms. All rooms are equipped with a flat-screen television providing access to almost 20 channels, telephone, internet connection, mini bar, safe, air heating-conditioning and coffee/tea-making facilities. All rooms have a terrace.

Room rates from 95 EUR/2 nights with halfboard

More information and booking: Saliris Resort Egerszalók

The hotel guests can use the bath from 7:00 to 22:00, however the bath guest can use it from 10 to 19 o’clock. So the hotel guests have some private hours in the bath.

During our weekend the best program was to go down to the bath after dinner and relaxing in the almost empty pools . We feeled like it was our private thermal bath.

We didn’t bath and relax only. We walked on the promenade built around the thermal bath and the salthills. The walk from the hotel to the salthill is cca 30 minutes, so it can be a good program before dinner. The walking route drives through a relaxing park with ponds, then next to the thermal bath and ended at the salthills and the thermal wells supplying the thermal bath and the neigbouring hotels ’ pools.

The thermal spring created a salt hill with the surface area of 1200 m2. With the development of the bath the salthill surface was increased to cca 1900m2. Now there are 3 hills. It is interesting to see the process of the nature salthill building from the pools of the bath.

Next time I will talk about the other attractions of the Egerszalók village, like the cave dwelling and the wine cellars.

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And a nice poem from pinewood77 on youtube:

Beautiful Budapest!
The City of Rest!
You wanna be here a guest!
Its not really West!
But it is the Best!
And this is Manifest!
BUDAPEEEEEEEEST! :)

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