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 ...

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 ...

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, also known as the Plattensee, is a popular vacation destination. Photo: GettyImages/Tamas Perlaki Many know Lake Balaton, also known as the Plattensee–yet this part of Hungary remains a ...

Lake Balaton, central Europe's biggest freshwater lake and one of Hungary's biggest tourist attractions, is shrinking - prompting warnings of an ecological and economic catastrophe that may be linked ...

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 ...

This is the incredible moment a huge 'atomic bomb' cloud was spotted looming over a lake in Hungary. The spectacular phenomenon is known as a 'wet microburst' and was captured nearly 50 miles away ...