Budapest and Krakow will sign a sister city agreement this year, announced Mayor István Tarlós during the opening ceremony of the exhibition titled “Common path – Budapest and Krakow in the Middle Ages”, held in the Budapest History Museum (BTM).
- The history of Krakow and Budapest, two fast and healthily growing and at all times royal cities, comes from the past, and will probably continue in the future, emphasized István Tarlós. He added that as agreed with Mayor Jacek Majchrowski, the already existing cooperation agreement between the two cities will be improved, and the two cities will sign a sister city agreement this year.
- The two cities have been playing a determining role in Central Europe since the Middle Ages. Between Buda and Vienna or Krakow and Prague once the bonds were even more tight, however the House of Anjou and the Jagellonian dynasty as well as the Hungarian and Transylvanian ruling dynasties have already interlocked during the 1300’s, recalled István Tarlós. He added that the present exhibition is the result of a three-year-long cooperation between the BTM and the Historical Museum of the City of Krakow, from which more than 200 objects of art have arrived to Budapest.
According to the Mayor of Krakow the European history of the last thousand years is full of wars, except for the relation between the Polish and Hungarian nation. By taking a look at the exhibition this deep friendship can be easily understood, and this friendship has revealed itself in different times, such as during the Second World War or in 1956 as well, said Jacek Majchrowski.
The opening of the art exhibition introducing the common history and linking points between Buda and Krakow, was part of the event series announced within the Day of Hungarian-Polish Friendship held on 18-19 March. The presidents of Hungary and Poland, János Áder and Andrzej Duda took over the patronage of the exhibition.
