Budapest is an enigmatic city rich in culture and virtuosity. Famous for its many medicinal waters, this great European capital save another treasure: an enviable cultural life. Thanks to its geographical position and its historical origins, has a rich variety of arts and cultural buildings. Moreover, culture in Budapest is not restricted to a small elite, but is immersed in daily life: art, music, literature . All citizens are a part of it.
The Hungarian capital has its own Museum Mile (Avenue of the museums), like many large American cities. On both sides of the Danube River stretches a long avenue where there is a very important part of the cultural life of Budapest. Andrássy Avenue stretches from the Royal Palace to the City Park.
Many of the most transcendent and beautiful monuments and palaces have become home to major museums, concert halls and theaters. In Hungary there are about 1,300 art galleries, museums and collections, of which 225 are in Budapest.
Budapest has a great musical history that ranges from the operas of Ferenc Erkel through the bombast of the pianist Franz Liszt (much admired in Hungary), to the folk songs of Béla Bartók (1881-1945) and Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967). Today the city hosts a festival of classical music world's most famous: the Budapest Spring Festival and the Budapest Autumn Festival.
In addition to classical music in the city can enjoy a rich offering of cultural programs such as theater, dance and opera at the Budapest Opera House and Erkel Theatre, the popular operettas and musical composers Kálmán Lehár and Abraham in the Operetta Theatre, or works in foreign languages Merlin Theatre.
Art lovers and museums need more than one day to discover the delights that the city proposes. The Museum of Fine Arts is the most important, as it is recorded among the most important museums in Europe. Has an important collection of works of art from around the world, among which the Spanish collection, with special attention to the paintings of El Greco and collections of Flanders, Holland and graphics.