grätzlhotel Belvedere, Vienna

New to the neighbourhood

Belvedere usually means one thing for visitors to Vienna – the 18th-century grouping of not one but two Baroque palaces with their famous art collections, all in a lovely park that has an orangery and stables. More prosaically, when looking for a place to ...

Menczer welcomes new Ningbo-Budapest flight

The new Ningbo-Budapest flight operated by Shanghai Airlines is "of extraordinary importance" in view of the war in Ukraine, Tamas Menczer, state secretary at the foreign ministry, told a ceremony at Budapest's international Liszt Ferenc Airport marking the departure of the first flight late ...

Timișoara 2023 event promises future prosperity

Timișoara is a splendid city that dates back to Roman times. Later it became an important centre of trade and commerce throughout the Middle Ages. It is clear when in Timișoara, which is pronounced “Ti-mi-shwar-ra” but known to Hungarians as Temesvár, that the place ...

Austrian National Library’s amazing State Hall

One book leads to 200,000 others

At The Budapest Times, Vienna’s Josefplatz has always been something a little more than one of the finest courtyards among the many in splendid Vienna – it is where post-World War Two black marketeer Harry Lime in “The Third Man” novel and film left ...

Heading for the heights in Zagreb

For a hotel that’s only been open one month, the Zonar Zagreb has quite a buzz to it this mid-week evening, There’re some later arrivals checking in at reception, showing their passports and credit cards and collecting their room keys, and enough people on ...

New flight between Hungary and China announced

China Eastern airlines is launching a new flight twice a week between Budapest and Ningbo in eastern China, Peter Szijjarto, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said on Facebook on Wednesday.

Royal cities and other beauties

Who hasn't dreamt of camel-riding on the sand dunes of the Sahara, surfing the Atlantic waves on board of a boat or a surfboard, admiring the endless sand dunes of the Sahara from a hot air balloon, or admiring the beauty of the breathtakingly ...

Szijjarto: Flights ‘could double’ between Hungary, China

Hungary and China have concluded a new agreement on air transport, which could double the number of flights between the two countries to 42 a week, Peter Szijjarto, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said in Ningbo, in eastern China, on Tuesday.