"Meat Jelly Festival is a prominent event of North Hungarian region and also a part of ‘Visiting Miskolc' programme set (1999) dedicated to popularize Miskolc and its surroundings.Every year in the third week of February Miskolc Winter the biggest open air festival of winter in Hungary invites visitors. The festival was founded upon a story about Miskolc starring the frog and the meat jelly...
This unique event is based either on modern entertainment and traditions and values. In the wide range of programmes elements of culture, gastronomy, sport, health, environmental protection, and active adventure tourism are gathered together.
...there is a proverb about the famous case that happened here in Miskolc: ‘Blinks like the frog in the meat jelly of Miskolc'...
As part of ‘Visiting Miskolc' marketing programme set, which provides revival of the town and the region this multicultural, an open air city festival is a real curiosity for the gourmands, the young and old, and for everybody, who would like to experience the joys of contemporary fairs and pleasant meetings.
The streets and squares are filled with life, street musicians, barkers and stilted showmen entertain the guests, ‘merry-making' moves into the city.
More than a hundred programmes, concerts and performances are waiting for the small and big ones who can taste the famous meat jelly of Miskolc, the laczi-steak, the pretzel and can have a sip of ‘Korty' (Sip), the well-known beer speciality of Miskolc... And here even frogs are falling from the sky...
‘More than a legend...' - MEAT JELLY FESTIVAL= more festivals together at the same time: culture, sport, health, environmental protection, active adventure tourism, gastronomy
‘More than a legend...' - MEAT JELLY FESTIVAL= pleasant meetings,
common experiences, unforgettable family programmes, contemporary fair feeling + meat jelly
*The biggest Hungarian, national, open-air, multicultural winter festival over days
*Complete collection of modern entertainment, traditions and values
*Year by year more and more people visit the festival, in 2007 more than 100 000 people took part in the events, in 2008 over 200 000 visitors were registered,
*More and more travellers arrive here from the farthest part of the world (e.g. Japan, USA, Canada, and Australia)
*Number of virtual festival visitors exceeds 500 000 (web camera)."
Source: kocsonyafesztival.hu
21.02.2012