This year the Hungarian architect Imre Makovecz (1935-2011) would have been 80 years old. The Hungarian pavillion he designed for the Sevilla World Expo in 1992 immediately became a Hungarian national symbol. Ten years later the message of this building inspired us to organize the Seven Towers Festival (...)

The symbolism of Seven Towers has appeared many times in Hungarian culture over the centuries, always with similar content and meaning. For us it symbolizes the folk culture, collective memory and creativity of the Carpathian Basin - between the Seven Towers of Vienna, Kosice, Mukacheve, Brassov, Novy Sad,  Zagreb and Maribor including the architecture and intellectual heritage of Imre Makovecz."

(Ferenc Kiss - artistic director of Seven Towers Festival)

This year's festival begins at the Fonó in Budapest and ends also in Budapest with a gala concert at the Academy of Music. In the meantime the festival will take a beautiful journey - a Hungarian pilgrimmage - through: Makó, Tiszapéterfalva (Pijterfolvo,Ukraine), Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Lendva (Slovenia), Jászapáti, Kakasd, and Budapest in Hungary.

More information on the festival can be found here on the Fonó website, and the Hettorony Festival website.