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This year has been a difficult year, especially now that theaters, cinemas, museums and restaurants have closed, events cancelled or postponed and curfews are making it difficult for us to move around. 

“A box of love and cooperation for Debrecen – Give more” – A help the needy donation point, was handed over on December 3rd at the main entrance of the Kölcsey Center.

Join the concert of the Kodály Philharmonic Orchestra and Dániel Somogyi-Tóth online, live from the Great Hall of the Kölcsey Center at 7.30 PM on 8th December.

Music lovers can listen to all the great classical music written in D major.

The most important moments of the change of regime in Hungary are evoked by the public installation called Hypercube, which can be seen at Baltazár Dezső Square (the square in the front of Modem and Kölcsey Centre). 

The traveling exhibition commemorates both the local and national events 30 years ago.

Due to the pandemic it has been decided that it is impossible to organize the Advent Concerts of the Reformed Great Church in the usual way.  However, the organizers are still to make sure that the audience will not be left wanting for a Christmas musical experience this year.

Following the successful developments of recent years, the Aquaticum SPA hotel and spa complex will soon be expanded with additional investment. In addition, a new hotel is opening in the city center.

The new Aquaticum Debrecen Water park in the Great Forest was a great success during its opening summer. This was despite the fact that it could have been kept open longer into the autumn due to the warm weather. The number of visitors was higher than expected, CEO of Debreceni Vagyonkezelő Zrt. Virág Kocsik-Marossy reported to the local newspaper.  More than 161,000 people visited the beach between June opening and September close.

The traditions of Christmas and Santa in Debrecen mirror those of other cities and countries in Central Europe, which are very different to Western Europe. In Western Europe Santa visits on Christmas Eve, whereas in Central Europe Santa comes on the eve of St Nicolas feast day (5th December) or on the feast day itself on the 6th December.

There are still many things reminiscent of the glorious Anjou era and the emblematic figures of this era in Debrecen for its citizens. One such memento is the part of the city called Mesterfalva, which was the property of “Mester Dózsa”, from whom today’s Mester Street and Dósa Nádor Square are also often named.

Writer, Poet and soldier, Mihály Fazekas (1766-1828) was born in Debrecen on January 6th 1766 and died in Debrecen on February 23rd 1828. On one hand, he was a soldier, an army private for seven years before being commissioned as a Hussar officer, and on the other hand he was someone who was disgusted by warfare and violence of any kind.

On the surface it seems a huge contradiction of character, but to understand the man you need to understand his journey through life.

The Kossuth and Liszt Prize-winning pianist Gergely Bogányi will give a piano concert solo on the evening of December 1st, 7.30 pm in the Great Hall of the Kölcsey Center in Debrecen, which can be followed live online from 7.30 pm.

They have already decorated the Christmas tree in the main square of Debrecen this week. Hundreds of ball balls were hung on the branches, and there are about 16,500 lights on the pine tree. 

In years past there would be vendors’ setting up their stalls in this place, at this time, but not this year, due to the pandemic, the Advent fair will be greatly missed in Debrecen and everywhere else in Hungary, and before you ask, no, there will be no ferris wheel or ice rink either.

The Debrecen Házai (Houses of Debrecen) online website was launched in 2019 by architect Attila Harangi. The young architect, who is mapping the civic residential houses of Debrecen, started the site with 200 civic residential houses listed.