Bajai Halfőző Fesztivál - 2023
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Usually held around early July.
Based on 12 past editions
Event Details
- Date & Time
- July 06 - July 08, 2023
- Location
- Szentháromság tér and Petőfi Island, Baja, Hungary
About This Event
Baja calls itself the capital of halászlé, the paprika-red Danube fish soup, and the festival is the town's big summer gathering. Amateur cooks and teams set up cauldrons in the centre and stir the soup over open fire, with the main cooking day on the Saturday. Around the cooking there are concerts, markets and family programmes, and the entry to the town-centre part is free while some stage programmes at Petőfi Island need a ticket. It began as a one-off celebration of the town and has run every July since.
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Organizer
- Thomas-Land Kft. (chief organiser Dávid Szajkó, winner of the city's tender), with the Turisztikai Kft. and Baja Marketing Kft.
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Location
Szentháromság tér and Petőfi Island, Baja, Hungary
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What's on
The 26th festival ran 6-8 July 2023 on Holy Trinity Square and Petőfi Island with more than 50 performers. On Saturday 8 July the mayor Klára Nyirati lit the first cauldron at an unusual 17:30. 500 cooks could cook on the square; about 5,000 kg of fish were cooked in all. Stage acts included Hooligans, Irigy Hónaljmirigy, Pápai Joci, Horváth Tamás, Wellhello, Curtis, Király Viktor and Bohémek; the Halfőzőfeszt DJ festival opened at 21:00 on the island, and a Children's Street (Gyerekutca) debuted.
On the menu
- Bajai halászlé (Baja fish soup, carp, paprika, onion, served with gyufatészta pasta)