The 2nd Ludovika Festival will be held in Orczy Park, Budapest between May 13 and May 15 2011.

The event will start with cadet officers marching and the flag handover ceremony of Ludovika Battalion. The festival will offer free family programs both on Saturday and Sunday. Traditional horse shows, military drills, spectacular close combats, craft workshops for children and military living history programs will await the visitors to Orczy Park. The traditions of Ludovika festival go back to the time of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy when a festivity was held before each swearing-in ceremony of cadet officers.

This year a hundred-day festivity prepares the passing-out ceremony of officers to be held on 20 August.

(Ministry of Defence)