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Baja Fish Soup Festival in Baja
Since the mid-1990s, hundreds of individual cauldrons fill Baja's Holy Trinity Square each July as families and teams simultaneously cook halaszle, the city's famous regional fish soup, in a mass communal cook that has grown into a multi-day celebration with concerts and family programming. Many teams guard closely held family recipes passed down specifically for this single annual cook.
Baja's Szentharomsag Ter, Holy Trinity Square, fills each July with hundreds of individual cauldrons as families, friend groups, and community teams gather to cook halaszle, Hungary's paprika-heavy fish soup, simultaneously across the square in what has grown into one of the country's most distinctive culinary spectacles.