Every year Hungarians mark St Stephen’s Day on 20 August. It is the celebration of the custom of welcoming the new bread and in honour of the king who ruled Hungary from 1000 to 1038. King Steven is credited with having brought Christianity to the country’s nomadic tribes. If you are in Budapest on this day you are likely to find open-air market places on every corner, meet spindle legged clowns and loud street entertainers, be amazed by daring flight demonstrations, listen to live concerts and watch theater performances on improvised stages, and bump into a brass band or two. In the evening there are the most magnificent fireworks above the River Danube.