ACTIVITIES COMPLETED IN MAY 2025

May 27, 2025 - in Budapest.

• meeting and walk with Zoltán Csigás, president of the 1956 Hungarian Freedom Fighters' Federation, ended in Corvina Lane, one of the main points of resistance in Pest,

• House of Terror Museum, a kind of monument to the victims of totalitarianism in Hungary and the heroes of the 1956 revolution,

• building of the Hungarian Parliament and Kossuth Square,

• hour-long boat cruise on the Danube,

• Shoes on the Danube Bank - a unique monument in the form of 60 pairs of shoes commemorating the victims of Jewish origin,

• In Memoriam 1956.Octóber 25 Museum dedicated to the tragedy that occurred on October 25, 1956 at Kossuth Square,

• monument to Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary during the 1956 revolution, executed on June 16, 1958,

• stay on nearly 100-hectare of Margaret Island on the Danube.

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May 28, 2025 - in Budapest.

• visit to the Polish House, where we watched the film "Twelve Days of Freedom - Hungarian Revolution 1956 Documentary" and one of three places in Budapest commemorating the Poznań June 1956, in the form of a memorial and a commemorative plaque,

• memorial site at Széna Square, where the greatest point of resistance was during the 1956 revolution in the Buda area,

• Castle Hill - Matthias Church, where royal coronations took place, the monument to St. Stephen, the first king of Hungary, and the Fishermen's Bastions,

• educational activities at the Hungarian House of Music,

• Chain Bridge, the first and oldest bridge connecting both banks of the Danube in the capital of Hungary, opened in 1849,

• St. Stephen's Basilica, which can accommodate 8,500 worshippers.

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May 29, 2025 - trip to Hollókő and staying in Gyulafirátót (overnight stay in Balatonalmádi).

• Hollókő is a village approximately 100 km north of Budapest, home to an open-air museum showcasing the well-preserved old village of Palóc, with its characteristic 17th-18th-century architecture (houses, craft workshops, church, etc.). The site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1987,

• spending time together with Hungarian youth at the HA2GY club's headquarters, the Gyulafirátót Cultural Center (team-building games and activities, shooting, a walk to the nearby hill with a historic Calvary, work at the radio station, including contact with the SP9KUP club from Andrychów, dinner with a traditional Hungarian dish - goulash),

• Balatonalmádi - the last overnight stay with breakfast in Hungary.

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May 30, 2025 - in Veszprém and in Balatonfüred at Lake Balaton.

• Castle Hill in Veszprém,

• meeting at the plaque commemorating the victims of the communist dictatorship with Kornél Pintér, president of the Hungarian National Organization '56, and veterans of the 1956 revolution from the Veszprém region, Sándor Balázs and Ferenc Sándor Mayer, who were repressed by the authorities,

• "Man Behind Bars" exhibition at the Veszprém Castle Museum, which functioned as a prison in the years 1815-1950,

• short stay in Balatonfüred on Lake Balaton (pier, promenade, characteristic sculptures of the ferryman and fisherman).