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Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Sziget Festival
Phone:
+36 20 345 9155

Address:
K-hid, Budapest 1033, Hungary

The Sziget Festival is one of the largest music and cultural festivals in Europe. It is held every August in northern Budapest, Hungary, on Óbudai-sziget , a leafy 108-hectare island on the Danube. More than 1,000 performances take place each year. The week-long festival has grown from a relatively low-profile student event in 1993 to become one of the prominent European rock festivals, with about half of all visitors coming from outside Hungary, especially from Western Europe. It also has a dedicated party train service that transports festival-goers from all over Europe. The second event , labelled Eurowoodstock, was headlined by performers from the original Woodstock festival. By 1997, total attendance surpassed the 250,000 mark, reaching an all-time peak in 2016 with 496,000 visitors from 95 countries . It is now being increasingly labelled as a European alternative to the Burning Man festival due to its unique features .In 2011, Sziget was ranked one of the 5 best festivals in Europe by The Independent. The festival is a two-time winner at the European Festivals Awards in the category Best Major European Festival, in 2011 and 2014.In 2002, Sziget branched out to Transylvania when its organisers co-created a new annual festival there titled Félsziget Fesztivál that soon became the largest of its kind in Romania. In 2007, the organisers co-created Balaton Sound, an electronic music festival held on the southern bank of Lake Balaton that quickly gained popularity.
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