Island of Freedom: Sziget Festival turns 30
IQ visits the Hungarian festival institution as the event celebrates a landmark anniversary and looks towards the future
Feature By IQ | 12 October 2023
As Sziget Festival chalks up its landmark 30th anniversary, Mark Beaumont reports that its evolution from student event to global phenomenon shows no signs of waning, as it looks towards the future.
For 30 years, the old railway bridge across the Danube to Old Buda Island has, for six days each August, become a portal to another world. A place where gigantic inflatable sculptures of heads made from eyes rise from the earth. Where sci-fi corridors of light guide you…
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