This years Budapest Spring Festival looking to be a fantastic event.

The capital city of Hungary, Budapest hosts the biggest cultural gathering in Hungary, the Budapest Spring Festival, with amazing orchestras, brilliant chamber concerts, jazz sessions, contemporary dance shows, cultural film screenings of a few of the emminent new artists with a vast number of venues that house these worldwide performers in a way that can only be provided by this individual historic city.

Budapest was created from three historic towns joining together Buda, Obuda and Pest in 1873. The River Danube goes through the middle of the city forming a natural transport path along its length.

Budapest has a rich and fascinating history which quickly pulls you in as you move around its gorgeous streets. Budapests historic heritage fits in well with the Budapest Spring Festival as it has always been a bustling thriving city attracting many brilliant artists over the years. Recognizing the unique worth of its traditions it has been able to maintain its wonder and charm, and is well known as the Queen of the Danube. Its other name is the City of Spas, as there are a multitude of thermal baths complexes provided for by over a hundred natural thermal springs.

This 2009 Budapest Spring Festival the theatre section of the Budapest Spring Festival features Hungarian première The Park by Botho Strauss and Puccini’s Turandot, conducted by Péter Oberfrank which will be a performance that is not to be missed out on.

Orchestral concerts include performances by Joshua Bell & the Camerata Salzburg and Oleg Maisenberg & the Kremerata Baltica, while on the jazz front there is the Nigel Kennedy Quintet, featuring the famous English violinist.
I saw the Nigel Kennedy Quintet when they performed at the Salisbury Festival in the UK and they were fantastic and for those of you who are culturally energised it is well worth going along to this amazing city and festival.

If this year you where thinking of going Gorilla Trekking in the heart of Africa or organising a tailor made holiday in India who am I to dissuade you, what I am spouting is that Budapest spring Festival is an experience that shouldn’t be missed.