{"id":1606,"date":"2019-05-15T21:40:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T19:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paprikamolnar.hu\/english\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2019-12-30T17:04:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T16:04:47","slug":"szeged-independence-day-for-300-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paprikamolnar.hu\/english\/szeged-independence-day-for-300-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Szeged \u201cIndependence Day\u201d for 300 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>300 years ago today, on 21 May 1719, Hungarian King Charles III.granted city status to the municipality of Szeged and the crest that symbolizes this status has been used by Szeged municipality to this day. The memory of this formal recognition of Szeged as a royal free city has grown to be the most important celebration for Szeged: the Day of Szeged on 21 May has become almost two weeks\u2019 of festivities in mid-May including the Szeged Wine Festival and my personal favorite, the <a href=\"http:\/\/szegediborfesztival.hu\/en\/programs\/bridge-fair\/\">Szeged Bridge Fair.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1607\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1607\" class=\"wp-image-1607 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paprikamolnar.hu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MG_1392-w-300x200-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Szeged \u201cIndependence Day\u201d for 300 years \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-1607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Szeged Bridge Fair<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This year on 25 and 26 of May the \u201cpontevecchio\u201d or Old Bridge is closed down for two days to give space to a wide-range of crafted goods, street artists, pageants and good food. The downtown is swarming with people and there\u2019s hardly a time in the year when Szeged is more colorful and fun than at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>300 years ago today, on 21 May 1719, Hungarian King Charles III.granted city status to the municipality of Szeged and the crest that symbolizes this status has been used by Szeged municipality to this day. 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