Budapest

The Művésztelep or Artists Colony of MACIVA the Hungarian State Circus Organization is located near to the Capital Circus of Budapest. On the pictures shown here we can still see the inside of the former animal training ring and the old big cat cages, both of which nowadays have been torn down and replaced by […]

In 1871 the Italian artist Giuseppe Barroccaldi erected a wooden circus in the Square in front of the Bethesda Hospital. It was the first circus building in the Budapest city forest or Városliget area. The first generation of Hungarian Circus performers ‘graduated’ in that ring. Due to its succes the board of director of the