A baroque garden will be created on Széchenyi Square, and next to it, a craft fair and children's games await visitors.
From Friday, the city center of Győr will once again be dressed in baroque splendor, where the Baroque wedding will be held for the 30th time. The highlight of the event will be the wedding ceremony on Saturday evening, at which this time an engaged couple from Győr, Lili Pelczéder and Imre Martin, pledge eternal fidelity to each other on Dunakapu Square.
The chosen betrothed are a traditional, XVII. they get married in a 19th century ceremony. The spectacular downtown costume parade will not be missed this year either.
The event was first organized by the Győr Arts and Festival Center in 1993 as part of the European Baroque Year, and since then the program has been held every year, in which a real couple always gets married in reality.
The scenario of the wedding ceremony was based on Péter Apor's book Metamorphosis. The program is for the XVII - XVIII. presentation of the cultural history of the 19th century: the authenticity of the clothing, music, dance, and behavioral culture of the period gives those interested an authentic picture of the period.
This is a real festival, where many of the city's residents dress up and experience the "flow" experience by becoming participants in the event. It is unique, there is no such event anywhere else. The buildings of downtown Győr built in the Baroque era provide a natural setting for the cultural program. Every year, the number of interested people is tens of thousands, and all age groups are represented.
On Friday afternoon, the program begins with the entrance of Mária Terézia, who is celebrating with the betrothed couple - that is, Austriadine, the Austrian traditionalist who plays her - in Széchenyi Square. In the evening, the traditional serenade is accompanied by Italian, English and Hungarian baroque court songs, after which the engaged couple separate to begin preparations for the wedding ceremony.
On Saturday, the Trumpet Department of the János Richter Vocational School of Music welcomes the holiday with fanfares from the balcony of the Lloyd Palace. The Grácia Art School will take the stage several times with the dance of the Angels, and the children will be treated to a fairy tale performance both in the morning and in the afternoon.
A baroque garden will be created on Széchenyi Square, and next to it, a craft fair and children's games await visitors.
The wedding ceremony will be opened by Gyula Szarka's concert Bor és a leányka. At seven o'clock in the evening, around a hundred costumed extras will depart from the square in front of the City Hall, and they will accompany the engaged couple and their wedding party to Dunakapu Square, where at eight o'clock in the evening, following the method of the ceremonies of the time, they will pledge eternal loyalty to each other. The evening ends with baroque entertainment and a dance hall.
On the occasion of the jubilee, a photo exhibition on Széchenyi Square presents the past thirty years of the event. The exhibition can be viewed until August 20.
MTI
