Top 10 Things People From Hungary Want You to Know

Budapest Has Repurposed Ruins into Pubs

They have a special name for their unique offerings

paprika

pálinka is made of fruit and water

wine from the Tokai region made from noble grapes

It's Home to the Largest Synagogue in Europe

and the third largest synagogue in the entire world

it's over 150 years old

It is now houses the ravelin burg Holocaust Memorial Park

The Language Is Tricky

Hungarian is one of the hardest languages to learn in the entire world

the Hungarian alphabet has 44 letters

Hungary Has Won a Large Number of Olympic Medals

in 2019 Hungary boasts 498 Olympic medals

fencing, gymnastics, swimming, water polo, kayaking

The Country Has Over 1000 Natural Springs and the World's Largest Thermal Lake

Lake Hévíz

Széchenyi Baths

They keep a mummified memento from their first king in Saint Stephen's Basilica

He died in 1038 and was buried but his body was later moved in exhumed

The country is landlocked but you can still have a beach vacay in the ,,Hungarian sea"

Lake Balaton is the largest lake in Central Europe

it's not too far away Budapest

it has own Music Festival the Balaton Sound

It's one of Europe's oldest countries

Hungary was officially founded in 1896

A ton of Nobel Prize winners and inventors have been Hungarian