Sziget Festival

last updated: Tue 27th Feb 2018

Sziget Festival, (pronounced see'-get) takes place on Óbudai-sziget ("Old-Buda Island"), an island in the Danube, Budapest, Hungary.

Taking place in August, the festival started as a local event in 1993 playing host to various Hungarian artists and has grown into a large European festival, showcasing over a thousand international artists, from many genres, to hundreds of thousands of visitors, half of which come from outside Hungary.

Sziget has loads of other things on offer to festival goers, beside the music, there's theatre, dance, classical music, cabaret, performances, films, fine art, crafts, literary presentations, programmes for kids, sports and other free time activities.

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