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Фестиваль Сигет (венг. Sziget, буквально «Остров») — ежегодный фестиваль музыки, культуры и искусства, один из крупнейших в Европе (в 2016 году фестиваль посетило 496 000 зрителей из 100 стран мира). Проходит с 1993 года на острове Обуда. На фестивале выступают коллективы, работающие в самых различных жанрах.


The Sziget Festival (Sziget, pronounced [ˈsiɡɛt] (About this sound listen), (Hungarian for "Island") is one of the largest music and cultural festivals in Europe. It is held every August in northern Budapest, Hungary, on Óbudai-sziget ("Old Buda Island"), a leafy 108-hectare (266-acre) island on the Danube. More than 1,000 performances take place each year.

Sziget Festival is notable in that it contains acts from many different genres. 2006 saw, among others, a blues stage, a jazz tent, a world music stage, alongside the main stage with more typical popular rock acts.

The festival is popular with west Europeans. Around 50% of visitors come from outside Hungary, with the largest group coming from the Netherlands. Many also come from the UK, Germany, Italy, France, Ireland and Romania.

Being located on an island, some festival goers have tried to enter by swimming across the Danube or by paddling across in inflatable rafts. The organisers very much discourage these attempts as it is dangerous due to the tricky nature of the fast-flowing Danube river.