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National features of Hungary

Inhabitants of Hungary naturally and organically combine healthy cheerfulness and practicalness with high spirituality and national romanticism. The keen observer will notice it. It is necessary to walk around Budapest - to most beautiful of world cities, conveniently and cosy arranged.

Hungary - the country of music and dances. Here there was an incendiary mix of original Hungarian music, with almost inaudible east shade, and passionate Gipsy motives. Inherent in it melodika it is traced in creativity of many European composers: Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Brams. This musical style has received the full statement thanks to remarkable to "the Hungarian rhapsodies» Ferenc Liszt. «Alma mater» other musical style - too Hungary: operettas Ferentsa Legara and Imre Kalmana know all. Quite there correspond to incendiary music the Hungarian pair dances. Seldom who reflected, how much they are liked all over the world. Try to guess, than practical housewives in northern Finland are engaged at a leisure? Want believe, want is not present - many of them take at leisure lessons of the Hungarian dance. In the Hungary almost continuously there pass numerous musical, theatrical, dancing festivals and flower carnivals.

the Two-thousand-year tradition is totaled in Hungary by culture of baths. As a matter of fact, all country is a huge, comfortable balneal resort. In days of Romans baths's the culture has reached here unprecedented blossoming that proves to be true excavation Akvinkuma, the Roman city in territory of Budapest. Though Turkish occupation of Hungary in XVI century has caused a huge damage to the country, but bannaja the culture has not suffered. Moreover, Turks - too the big admirers of baths - have constructed new, highly appreciated contemporaries.

the Hungarian cuisine has presented to the world a goulash. For it nourishing, harmonious dishes on taste, with use of red ground pepper, an onions, tomatoes, siliculose pepper - a paprika are characteristic. In the national menu many meat dishes and products from the dough, but the most well-known invention - the Tokajsky wine using world glory. Goethe has named it «the king of wines, wine of kings».

It is impossible to imagine Hungary without red pepper which, appears, it is delivered here only in XVI-XVII centuries, in Turkish domination. Its manufacture outside of Turkey was at that time strictly forbidden, therefore crops delicacy pepper kept a secret, in the most secluded corners of kitchen gardens. Solemn procession of a paprika on the country has begun only in XIX century. This beautiful and useful plant has found the best conditions on the Big Hungarian lowland where during time pospevanija its plantations blaze.