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Coronation Festival Games in Szekesfehervar
Within Szekesfehervar's August Royal Days celebration, this medieval-themed segment stages the Coronation Ceremonial Play using roughly 900-year-old ceremony texts on an open-air platform, alongside a recreated medieval street market, jousting, and puppet processions. The National Memorial venue itself sits atop the archaeological remains of the medieval basilica where Hungarian kings were once actually crowned.
Within Szekesfehervar's broader Kiralyi Napok, Royal Days, celebration each August, a specifically medieval-themed segment called the Koronazasi Unnepi Jatekok, the Coronation Festival Games, occupies what organizers describe as the middle weekend, usually scheduled around August 20 to 23, distinguishing itself from the folk-dance and parade programming that runs across the wider Royal Days period.