Our Holiday Free Tour Schedule
Our Christmas and New Year’s free tour schedule
Dear Travelers, in this blog post let us share our holiday Free Budapest Walking Tours Schedule and a couple of things about how Hungarians celebrate Christmas!
Holiday free tour schedule
- Free Budapest Walk: Dec.23;24;27,28;30;31 at 10:30 on the Pest side, Elisabeth square
- Free Buda Castle Walk: Dec.23; 27;28;30;31 at 14:30 on the Buda side, Batthyány square metro station
- Free Jewish District Walk Dec.23;27;30;31 at 15:30 on the Pest side, Elisabeth square
- Free Communism Walk Dec.28; 31 at 15:30 on the Pest side, Elisabeth square
- Free Evening Walk Dec.30 at 18:30 on the Pest side, Elisabeth square
See you soon at our meeting points, we wait for you in our blue uniforms and blue free tour flags! Booking is not mandatory at all, but if you feel safer, you can find the ‘Book now’ button at each of our Budapest Free Tours subpage!
Christmas and New Year in Hungary
Now let’s see how Hungarians celebrate the most important Christian Holiday!
The population of our country is roughly 10 million (2 million people live in the capital city, Budapest). About 70 percent of the Hungarians are Roman Catholic, about 20-30 percent Protestant, and we have 1 percent Jewish in our population.
Traditionally Hungarians celebrate Christmas Eve on the 24th of December. This is the day when Baby Jesus was born, and in our tradition he is the one that brings the presents on the evening of the 24th of December (not Santa Claus). Usually, the nuclear family gets together on the 24th, then on the 25th of December, which is the first day of Christmas, we go and visit the extended family, and this goes on on the 26th and 27th as well. On the 31st we celebrate New Year’s Eve of course, with our friends and/or family.
In one of our previous blog articles, HERE you can read about what the Hungry Hungarians eat around these Holidays! 🙂
