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Mihály Csokonai was an innovative Hungarian poet, born and raised in Debrecen.  His talent was recognized early at high school by his teachers, József Háló Kováts who taught poetry and Fodor Gerzson who taught higher rhetorical and metaphysical classes. 

After graduating from Debrecen College in 1788, he went on to study applied geometry, natural sciences, and philosophy under József Milesz, theology under András Ormós as well as applied geometry.  He was most influenced by Hungarian history, general world history along with ancient literature. 

The last decades of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century are of paramount importance in terms of both the design and construction in Debrecen. Knowing this is to understand the process that Debrecen went through to become a big city during the period of about a quarter of a century up until the First World War. Spectacular building projects were undertaken all over the city and was a period when the new buildings reached the standard of most modern cities of the time, in terms of size, decoration, structure, and location.

It has been a hard year. Even now when theaters, cinemas, museums, and restaurants are closed, events are cancelled, and due to the curfew between 8 pm and 5 am we are even more restricted on what we can do. We hope that tourism will restart next year soon and that we will be able to go on short holidays once again.

Until then we have no other choice but to be a tourist in our own city and explore Debrecen from a fresh perspective.

New COVID-19 rules make quarantine when entering Hungary from abroad, law. No separate administration decision is no longer needed. Hotels are no longer able to accept tourists.

At the same time fees for breaking quarantine have increased to dissuade those thinking of doing so. The fees have increased from HUF 50,000 to HUF 150,000 (maximum fine).

The fee issued can be anywhere between 5000 HUF and the maximum.

In order to slow down the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the Annual Advent programs and the Advent fair will not be held this year in Debrecen. 

Főnix Rendezvényszervező Közhasznú Nonprofit Kft. is confident that, in accordance with the epidemiological measures of the government and the city, in addition to strict mask-wearing, this decision will also reduce the number of new cases in Debrecen.

What a great idea! Recordings of Famous brands of the past in concert, after all, great music is borderless, transversing the globe, crossing all cultural divides. This November, in English, Queen, Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin on the big screen with fantastic sound, – Where? At the Apollo Cinema of course.

The Nature Museum hosts the Botanica Historica exhibition at the Déri Museum from 29th September to 11th November as part of the Autumn Festival of Museums. The exhibition features ninety works by nine large plant drawers. On 8th November attendance is free.

The exhibition presents plant drawings made from the 1600s to the 1930s, and in addition to the pictures, you can also read a short biography of the creators. The significance of the drawings is also enormous because in that age, although a camera did not yet exist, large natural history books were all the rage, in which plants come to life as beautiful works. In addition, the representations can still be used to enrich botanical knowledge.

On this thematic day, visitors can listen to a presentation of the head of the Natural History, Zoltán Váradi, and take part in a related museum pedagogical session.

The use of a mouth mask is mandatory in the entire area of ​​the Déri Museum!

Sunday, 8 November 2020 from 10:00-13:00. Attendance is free, but registration is required!

Register by phone on +36 52 322-207 / 108. or on the http://www.derimuzeum.hu/regegistracio page.

Themed family days in the spirit of autumn: wonderful music, dancing, handicraft classes, craft fair, and many other surprises await in the renewed Dósa palatine square on Saturdays!

From November 6th to the 30th November between the hours of 09:00 – 18:00, the winning entries to the 38th Hungarian Press Photo competition will be available to view at the Kölcsey Center, in the Circular Corridor.

267 photographers submitted 2,488 entries to the 38th Hungarian Press Photo Competition, the total number of images received was 6,079.

On Sunday 8^th November will be the European Arthouse Cinema Day, once again, held for the 5^th time.  The event is held across the world in hundreds of arthouse cinemas on the same day.  This is an initiative of the International Association of Art Cinemas (CICAE) and Europa Cinemas, the international event aims to raise awareness of the diversity of European cinema and the importance of art cinema as a cultural and community space.

On St. George’s Day just passed, during the Herding and Crane Festival in Hortobágy, an inauguration ceremony took place for a new nature trail.

The ceremony included an interesting environmental lecture and playhouse for the children to promote the new trail.  The new trail was created as part of an interregional development program.

The permanent exhibitions of the Déri Museum have been enriched with new numismatic pieces.

Visitors can explore previously unseen pieces from the museum’s numismatic collection as they walk through the gallery.

You can create your own graphics in the free workshops of Modem.

The artists of the exhibition “Debrecen / art” hold small workshops every Friday at 4 pm in Modem. 

We are looking forward to a super November, at least as far as the programs on offer in Debrecen is concerned! Thematic film days, jazz and classical music concerts, theater performances, dance productions, exhibitions, and family programs alternate throughout the month within the framework of the Debrecen Autumn Festival.