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Eating like a Spaniard in Budapest: what you can find (and what you can’t)

When you move to Budapest from Spain, there are a lot of things that strike you: the language, the cold, the public transport, the people… But there is an exact moment when you know that you are no longer at home: the moment when you stand in front of a supermarket shelf looking for chorizo… and you realise that everything is in Hungarian, and nothing is like what you know.Eating like a Spaniard in Budapest is not impossible, but it is an art. Between ingredients that don’t exist, others that are similar (but not the same), and prices that make you wonder if you really need Serrano ham, you learn to improvise. And to value much more the aioli from a jar or a simple loaf of crusty bread.This article is an honest and useful guide for those who want to keep a little taste of home without losing their…

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Shared Memory: Hungary and its tribute to the Hungarian fighters in the Spanish Civil War

Among the sculptures in Memento Park is the Monument to the Hungarian Fighters of the International Brigades in Spain. This work is located in the section of the park called The endless promenade of the concepts of the workers’ movement, where it coexists with other representations of communist ideology. Its location creates a visual and conceptual dialogue about this historical period. The monument was created in 1968 by the Greek-Hungarian sculptor Makrisz Agamemnon (Memos Makris), at the height of the communist regime in Hungary. It originally stood in the centrally located Néphadsereg Square (now Honvéd Square), a highly visible place in Budapest. However, after the change of regime in 1989, it was moved in 1993 to Memento Park, as part of the initiative to gather the communist-era memorials there. This move did not involve the removal of the work, but rather its recontextualisation within Hungary’s contemporary historical narrative. The sculpture…

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