The story of asdfsadfsdafthe flag with a hole Well before the anniversary of the October 23rd 1956 Revolution, the national flag with a hole in the middle is displayed on buildings all over the city. Newcomers to Budapest often wonder what the hole depicts. According...
HERZL TIVADAR – Binyamin Ze’ev Herzl (1860-1904) Early life of Herzl The Architect of the Jewish Nation On my first visit to Tel Aviv back in the 1980s I went to the Knesset to see Marc Chagall’s grandiose frescoes. Once there, I peeped into the Assembly...
WHY DO HUNGARIANS WEAR A ROSETTE ON MARCH 15? Throughout the city you will see people wearing ’kokárda’ (rosette shaped badge with the national colours of red-white-and-green) on their lapels. All sizes from discreet 2 cm up to 20 cm. You will also witness several...
THE BEM FLAG OF HUNGARIAN FREEDOM Hungarian history could be well related by the history of flags starting from the Árpáds until the flag with a hole of 1956. The present red-white-green flag dates back to 1848/49 War of Independence against Austria but these colours...
The bullet-riddled walls of Budapest Should the facades of the bullet-riddled apartment buildings be plastered and, following the gentrification trend, look neat or leave them as a mementos of difficult times in our history? The big holes you see on several buildings...
How to get rid of your conflicting statues? Yesterday’s heroes are today’s enemies. The symbolism of statues has become a hot issue most everywhere. In Hungary, where history has been rewritten by every major regime change (five times in the 20th century alone), we...
