Exceptional Experiences: Hungarian Hospitality Fresh Strudel and Fine Art

Strudel Making at : One of the bakers at legendary Gundel restaurant shows you how to make traditional strudel during a private class. Fill your treat with anything you like — cheese, fruit, nuts — and while it is baking, enjoy a bowl of Gundel’s legendary goulash before delving into your Clockwise from top: handmade dessert. Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest; horse carriage Private Performance at the State Your emotions overtake ride in Buda; Fisherman’s Opera House: you as three arias are sung for you on the Royal Bastion on Castle Hill; fresh Staircase of the ornate State Opera House. Opened in baked chocolate roll. 1884 to great pomp and pageantry, the Opera House is one of Budapest’s most significant art treasures and the very symbol of the country’s rich operatic tradition. This evening, it is opened exclusively for you.

Home and Studio of Molnár C. Pál: The grandson of the popular Hungarian artist Molnár C. Pál introduces you to the painter’s private collection, normally closed to the public. As you tour his former home and studio, listen to fascinating family tales about the artist’s influences and the penchant for irony and whimsy evident in his work.

Hospital in the Rock: Head underground for a private tour of the secret nuclear and hospital beneath Budapest’s Castle Hill. Part of an approximately six-mile-long stretch of interconnected caves and tunnels, the Sziklakórház Múzeum (Hospital in the Rock Museum) reveals the history of the emergency hospital used during World War II and the 1956 Revolution to treat wounded civilians and soldiers.

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