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6 unusual facts about Margaret Island


2021 World Aquatics Championships

Two of the competition venues will be located in Margaret Island: a brand-new indoor swimming pool complex for swimming, diving and synchronized swimming, and the existing Alfred Hajós sports pool for water polo.

Éva Marton

She made her professional debut as Kate Pinkerton in Puccini's Madama Butterfly at Hungary's Margaret Island summer festival.

Göncöl Foundation

The “Look-out” Modern Arts Gallery, located on the Margaret Island (Hungarian: Margit-sziget) in Budapest, started in 1984.

Gyermekvasút

For the railway construction several sites were considered, including the neighbourhood of the Gödöllő Palace, Margaret Island and the Népliget, but finally in 1948 the Hungarian Communist Party choose the Buda Hills.

Margaret Island

The island houses various sports establishments, like the Palatinus water park (the largest open-air swimming complex in Budapest), the Alfréd Hajós sports pool (where the European LC Championships 1958, 2006 and 2010 took place), a tennis stadium and an athletics centre.

Maria Laskarina

Canonized by the Roman Catholic Church in 1943, for whom Margaret Island in Budapest is named, having been the place where a royal monastery was established by her parents for her.



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