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Mountain escape
The city of Eger is a jumping-off point to explore the highlights of northern Hungary, from treks to the country’s highest peaks to dips in the area’s curative waters.
Go with the flow
This sinuous stretch of the Danube above Budapest offers gentle views and forests where visitors can hike, swim and canoe – or explore its towns by ferry.
Don’t miss the south
In Hungary’s southern reaches, the landscape becomes wilder, flatter and more remote.
Better lake than never
Lake Balaton is the closest that landlocked Hungary comes to having a seaside and the mood here is one of maritime merriment, thanks to boating, watersports and swimming when the mercury rises.
Look north
A futuristic Hungarian hotel sits amid volcanic vineyards, while a thousand-year-old abbey employs locals in winemaking—discovering northern Hungary's blend of innovation and tradition.
City of culture and charm
Most international visitors will travel through Hungary's postcard-pretty capital of fairy-tale castles and soaring spires. Here we suggest the top tables, best hotels and key cultural venues within the Pearl of the Danube.
Laying down routes
Searching for places that are untrampled by mass tourism, where the wines are well made and well priced, we recommend a trip or two beyond Hungary’s capital to its surrounding regions.
Hungary for more?
The Magyars, as Hungarians are sometimes known, landed in the Carpathian Basin a millennium ago – and you can see why they stayed. The Central European nation has surprises aplenty.
Flexible friends
Change is coming to Central Europe as liberal-leaning mayors challenge their more autocratic-minded national governments. And Budapest’s Gergely Karacsony is looking to Vienna for inspiration.
Empire strikes back
Georg von Habsburg, son of the last crown prince of Austria-Hungary, still identifies as a Central European. And he believes that his family’s legacy is vital to the region.
