The events are expected to draw tens of thousands of people to the city.
The city will host the Vidor Festival, which highlights Hungarian theatre, between August 24 and September 1. Films and concerts will also be on the programme.
Theatre performances and concerts will also take place in the months of July and August in the framework of Open-air Summer. The programme of the festival will be finalised by the beginning of March.
A culinary festival will take place in July that celebrates the cuisine of the local ?tirpaks?, Slovaks who migrated there from the area around Békéscsaba hundreds of years earlier.
The city will celebrate the start of a big wave of migration in 1753 on May 18-20. It will mark the birth of the writer Gyula Krúdy, one of its famous sons, on October 20-21.
The Cantemus International Choir Festival will take place in the city on August 16-21.
Nyíregyháza will close 2012 with a year-end festival on December 27-31.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
