Hortobágy Behajtás és Darufesztivál
On the UNESCO World Heritage puszta, the ancient St Demetrius-day cattle-driving ceremony sees grey cattle herded to winter pastures past the Nine-Arch Bridge, coinciding with the mass autumn migration of tens of thousands of common cranes over the Hortobágy marshes.
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"A Great Plain cooking competition in its 25th year where teams vie to make the definitive Sárrét-style mutton pörkölt alongside pastry contests and traditional food in the flat grassland landscape of Békés county."
Mágori Fesztivál - XXV. Sárréti Birkapörköltfőző Verseny
"One of Hungary's oldest and most celebrated folk fairs, held beside the iconic Nine-Hole Bridge on the Hortobágy puszta, with craft stalls, horsemen's parades, folk music and traditional plainsman food rooted in the early 19th century."
Hortobágyi Hídivásár
"A patron-saint fair on the feast of Saint James featuring a szüreti felvonulás harvest procession, cooking contest, and stage performances in a Great Plain market village named after the saint himself."
Jakab-napi Vigasság
"Kiskőrös, birthplace of poet Petőfi Sándor, hosts this harvest and ethnic heritage festival on Petőfi tér, celebrating the town's Slovak minority traditions alongside szüreti processions, wine tasting and folk craft stalls."
Kiskőrösi Szüreti és Nemzetiségi Napok
"A three-day village harvest festival in the Great Plain commune of Ballószög, featuring a traditional szüreti procession, folk craft market, local gastronomy, stage concerts and children's programmes."
XXI. Ballószögi Szüreti Napok
"The 47th edition of Kiskunhalas's szüreti festival on the main square, a 30-plus-year-old tradition of grape harvest processions, folk dance groups, a wine courtyard and headline concerts on the Southern Great Plain."
47. Halasi Szüreti Fesztivál
"Abony's national-day ceremony on Hungary's founding saint's feast day opens with a brass-band reveille, moves through a civic gathering and high mass, and culminates in a procession and the blessing of the new bread."
Szent István-napi Ünnepség
"A traditional Balaton-shore harvest celebration featuring a ceremonial grape pressing, szüreti felvonulás procession, and stage performances in a small wine village between Keszthely and Badacsony."
Szüreti Vigasságok Gyenesdiáson
"A uniquely Hungarian almond harvest celebration in a tiny Balaton-felvidék village, where visitors join the almond pressing and compete in a nut-cracking contest, one of the very few almond-harvest customs still observed in Central Europe."
Mandulaszüreti Programok
"Hungary's longest and most colourful harvest procession winds from Badacsonytomaj to Badacsony along the main lakeside road, with folk dance troupes, horsemen, wine orders, fire jugglers, and brass bands celebrating the 62nd edition of this beloved volcanic-hillside vintage festival."
62. Badacsonyi Szüret
"A two-day harvest fair renowned far beyond the village, with a Friday cook-off followed by a spectacular Saturday szüreti felvonulás procession and a street dance along the village's main road."
Bócsai Szüreti Napok
"A community harvest custom in the secluded Nivegy valley above Lake Balaton, where the villages of this ancient wine-growing hollow join for a szüreti felvonulás procession and murci new-wine celebration rooted in Balaton-felvidék folk tradition."
Nivegy-völgyi Murci Fesztivál