1st Weekend PreParty & Main Event
New York Palace Budapest
Since 1894
Old World glamour meets contemporary luxury in the heart of Budapest. Designed by famous Hungarian architects, New York Palace is an architectural masterpiece. A marble façade is adorned with ornate carvings and clock towers, while inside, ballroom-style columns, chandeliers and frescoes transport guests back to a golden era.
The building opened on October 23, 1894 as a local office of the New York Life Insurance Company. The famous New York Café, located on the ground floor, has been a longtime center for Hungarian literature and poetry. The building was damaged in WWII, and then nationalized during the communist era. In 1957, the Hungarian sculptors carved replicas in the New York Café of the damaged allegorical sculptures of Thrift and Wealth, America and Hungary. In February 2001, the structure was sold by the Hungarian government to the Italian Boscolo Hotels chain. The building was totally renovated and reopened on May 5, 2006as New York Palace – A Boscolo Luxury Hotel. It was renamed Anantara New York Palace Budapest Hotel on November 24, 2021.
2nd Weekend PreParty & Main Event
Budapest Congress Center
Situated in the neighbourhood of the Buda Hills, surrounded by the beautiful Chestnut Park and easy to reach from the buzzing downtown and only 40 minutes from the Airport, the Budapest Congress Center is the most complex congress and meeting facility in Hungary.
The main auditorium and the other 20 multifunctional rooms, exhibition space up to 4000 sqm are able to welcome up to 2000 people.
We ensure full and high quality service with our in-house, experienced event and catering team.
In addition, the large plenary hall can easily turn into a gala dinner venue welcoming up to 900 guests.
Reliable audio-visual support is available on-site for all kinds of technical needs.
As a unique feature, Novotel Budapest City offers 319 bedrooms accommodating delegates at the venue of their conference.
UNESCO, WHO, IOSCO, Interpol, only a few of those worldwide known organizations
who chose Budapest Congress Center and made us proud to have been part of their story.
Bootcamps Venue
Magnet Ház
Since 1885
The history of the former Pallavicini Palace
The building was built between 1883-85 according to the plans of Gusztáv Petschacher for the Pallavicini family in the historicist-neo-renaissance style. It is one of the most representative buildings of the section of Andrássy út after Körönd.The Pallavicini Palace was built by Count Sándor Pallavicini. In 1874, the family received the plot in exchange for the ownership of the Sándor Palace in the castle. Onlookers on the street might have thought it was a lord’s palace, but it was actually nothing more than a luxury apartment building. It differed from the apartment buildings we had seen so far only in its elegance, imposing dimensions, and inhabitants. The tenement palace had a total of fourteen apartments, one on each floor, opening from the two gates and the main stairwell.Sándor Pallavicini was a diplomat, so he spent little time in his house, but thanks to his connections, he managed to get high-class tenants. Descendants of the famous Batthyány and Széchenyi families also lived here. In the huge palace, there were only two apartments per floor, each consisting of fourteen rooms. However, since two staircases were built into the palace, only one apartment was opened per floor from each staircase. The designer, Gusztáv Petschacher, recalled the mature cinquecento architecture of Genoa and Milan with the main facade and interior spaces of the palace.During the Second World War, the building was seriously damaged, and during the restoration, they tried to restore it perfectly from the outside. Due to the socialism of the time, however, the interior was transformed and the size of the apartments was reduced. For a long time, the building functioned as an office building, as the headquarters of Hídepító Rt. Today, after another renovation, the central branch and offices of MagNet Közösségi Bank Zrt. are located here in the right wing of the building and the MagNet Community Hall in the left wing.