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Hungary: “Gloomy Sunday” in Budapest

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Hungary, Arts & Culture, Food, Health, History, Language, Music, Travel

Pestcentric writes [1] about a Budapest restaurant where “arguably the most famous Hungarian song was written: ‘Gloomy Sunday.’ Rezső Seress wrote the original lyrics here back in the 1930s.” What's known to the world, though, is “a watered-down translation of an already softened reinterpretation.”