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Porcelain Museum And Manufacturer Tour

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Herend
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BOOK a guided tour for min. 2 people during our promotion period and we PRESENT you a 72h Budapest Card to explore beautiful Budapest! Unique Guided Tour at the World-Famous Porcelain Museum! Herend is the center of . .
Country: Hungary
City: Herend
Duration: 1 Day(s) - 0 Night(s)
Tour Category: Culture Tours
Departure Date: Thu 01 Jan '99
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BOOK a guided tour for min. 2 people during our promotion period and we PRESENT you a 72h Budapest Card to explore beautiful Budapest!

Unique Guided Tour at the World-Famous Porcelain Museum!

Herend is the center of artistic porcelain production in Hungary. Until quite recently only a select few could explore the mystery of the creation of these wonderful examples of masterful craftsmanship. Today this is an opportunity open to everyone. Herend has been running a visitor center – home of the creation of porcelain items – offering, if requested, a full day's program to porcelain enthusiasts. Porcelain offers high-class entertainment to its visitors.

With the help of video films, pot-throwers, and professional painters there are demonstrations to show how the porcelain paste will turn into a glossy porcelain item. Guides show visitors around to see the "magicians' tricks" behind the scenes. It is all there for you to discover – the world's biggest collection of Herend pieces, hosted by the Porcelain Museum, and the largest selection of purchasable products in the Victoria Brand Shop – both to be found in Herend.

The Apicius Restaurant and Café is a nice way to relax following a lesson of craftsmanship in the manufacturing of porcelain and the first impressions of glossy, shining porcelain items. Here the unique ambiance of intimacy and service out of "Herend sets" might as well be the highlight of the day. So join us for a special tour! Herend is a place offering special as well as traditional programs and unconventional opportunities for entertainment for all seasons of the year, expecting art fans, porcelain buffs, and everyone else interested in what it has to offer.

After the tour you can have the possibility to have a delicious lunch at the beautiful Apicius Restaurant & Cafe:

The restaurant is named after the celebrated Roman gourmet Apicius. It is a real culinary experience to eat dishes worthy of him in the elegant grand hall or the more intimate gallery. It is a comfortable place for 80 persons at maximum capacity. Marcus Gavius Apicius was a notorious Roman gourmet and lover of luxury who lived in the 1st century AD.

He is sometimes said to be the author of the first Roman cookbook, which was actually compiled about 300 years later… He was the subject of On the Luxury of Apicius, a famous work, now lost.

Evidence for the life of M. Gavius Apicius derives partly from contemporary or almost-contemporary sources but is partly filtered through the work by the Greek Apion, whose purpose was presumably to explain the names and origins of luxury foods, especially those anecdotally linked to Apicius. From these sources, anecdotes about Apicius survived.

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