During the communist era, travel options were limited in Hungary and Central Europe, which meant Lake Balaton became the region’s most popular vacation destination. Now, with the world gripped by the ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Lake Balaton in western Hungary. With a surface area of around 600 sq km and a length of around 78 km, this freshwater lake is the largest in central ...

LAKE BALATON, Hungary -- On the busiest day of the summer at Balaton, the biggest lake in Central and Eastern Europe, around 500 boats with thousands of crew members roast under the hot sun, while ...

SZIGLIGET, Hungary — Fishermen in small, wooden boats drift among the reeds and placid waters of Lake Balaton, the largest lake in Central Europe and one of Hungary’s natural treasures. Like many of ...

Steamy air, warm water against the skin, a light mist at dawn: in Hévíz, Hungary, swimming becomes an almost unreal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. View of Hungarian countryside near Lake Balaton - Frank Wagner/Getty Images Best known for its opulent capital and regal history, ...

REVFULOP, Hungary (Reuters) - Under cloudless summer skies, thousands of competitors plunged into the balmy waters of Balaton on Saturday to swim across Central Europe's largest freshwater lake.

As Hungary's central bank braces to be the first in the European Union to hike its interest rates since the pandemic, nowhere are the inflationary pressures that are building more tangible than in the ...

Water runs through life in Hungary like no other place I have seen. In Budapest, the Danube River is an artery of the city, crossed by bridges and carrying barges and boats. Lake Balaton is the ...

Hungary's Lake Balaton had frozen deep enough for safe skating on Sunday (January 18), much to the delight of local people.