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Since 2006, the Autumn Festival of Museums has been an annual series of cultural events over an extended period. Its aim is to promote museums in a broad sense, not only to draw attention to museums, but also to keep it alive with exciting, modern, entertaining, and year-round programs.

As part of the Autumn Festival of Museums, visitors are welcome to MODEM on 28 October 2023, where they will be shown from cellar to attic how one of Hungary’s largest contemporary art centers works.

Halloween, one of the most popular festivals of the autumn season, is a tradition in Anglo-Saxon culture, but is now celebrated in many parts of the world. It’s no different in Hungary, where young and old alike dress up in scary costumes to play tricks on each other and, according to tradition, ward off the returning ghosts of the dead.

In Debrecen, there are Halloween programs in several locations around the city. We have put together a selection of these.

Theatre tours will continue in the second half of October at the newly renovated Csokonai Theater.

The behind-the-scenes tours, held several times in the afternoon, are led by the theater’s artists and take you to places of the theater that are hidden from the public and are real theatre delicacies: the dressing rooms, the stage, the set storage, the artists’ buffet, the orchestra pit and, last but not least, the several floors of the revolving stage.

Debrecen shows its beautiful face in autumn, when the parks and squares of the city center and the magnificent natural surroundings of the Nagyerdő are bursting with color. Take advantage of the sunny autumn days and spend as much time as possible outdoors! But don’t worry if it’s cloudy or rainy, the city’s cultural spaces offer great programs. This is a great time to recharge your batteries for the winter with cultural and wellness experiences. How? We’ll show you!

A unique new artwork has been created in the main square of Debrecen. The modern artwork, located in the Glass Pyramid next to the Reformed Great Church, aims to show that the human soul is rebuilt in Christ, just as the city is rebuilt from the ashes. The installation will be inaugurated on Sunday 22 October 2023 at 11 am, after the 10 am service at the Great Church.

Take advantage of the long weekend of 23 October to relax and recharge your batteries. Debrecen is the ideal destination for a relaxing and meaningful long weekend, where besides pampering wellness experiences and romantic walks in the Great Forest, the city’s museums, galleries and tourist attractions offer an additional exciting recharge and cultural experience.

To help you plan your activities, we’ve put together a list of opening times from 20 to 23 October.

In honour of the 67th anniversary of the 1956 Revolution and War of Independence and the 34th anniversary of the proclamation of the Hungarian Republic, the Municipality of Debrecen will organize a commemoration and wreath-laying ceremony on Monday, the 23rd of October 2023.

The long weekend of 23 October is a great opportunity to recharge your batteries. In addition to walks in the open air, excursions, visits to museums or a family cinema, the best way to recharge your batteries is to go to the Aquaticum SPA, where you can enjoy the best water and family experiences this weekend.

The Church Market, a farmers’ market with the widest range of products in the city, opens its doors on the third Saturday of every month at 8 am in the courtyard of the Reformed Great Church Assembly Centre, 2-4 Leány Street where artisans and small producers from Debrecen and its surroundings offer their goods. Cheese, fresh bakery products, dry pasta, smoked meats, jams, syrups, coffee, chili, honey, apple cider, handicraft jewellery, utensils and toys, and many other products are sold from month to month.

In the Hortobágy, following an old folk tradition, shepherds and their livestock alike prepare for winter by driving their animals from the pastures of the puszta to their winter shelter. This tradition is held every year close to St. Dömötör’s Day. This year the St. Dömötör’s Day Herd-in Festival will be held on Saturday 21 October at the Mátai Stud Farm, together with the Crane Festival.

Recently, several murals have been painted in the city center of Debrecen. The first one was put up on the firewall of the Bethlen Gábor School of Economics in 2021: the spectacular work was commissioned by the Debrecen Vocational Training Centre and Alföldi Printing Company to mark the 460th anniversary of the founding of the local printing industry. The second is a tribute to Ákos László, the city’s iconic painter and his work, on the firewall behind Gambrinusz lane and the third is a glimpse of Magda Szabó’s Debrecen on the wall of the former Rickl House at 39 Piac Street.

Accor, one of the world’s leading hotel management companies, is expanding its portfolio of renowned brands in Hungary, further strengthening its presence in the country’s eastern region. The group will open an ibis Styles hotel at Debrecen Airport, which will welcome its first guests in 2025.

Accor will strengthen its leading position in the hotel industry in Central and Eastern Europe. Thanks to an agreement with Xanga Group, one of the largest investment and development groups in Eastern Hungary, Accor will open an ibis Styles hotel in the second largest city in Hungary. The new ibis Styles will be the first hotel to be built in the immediate vicinity of Debrecen International Airport, the second busiest airport in the country.