President of Hungary Katalin Novák to Attend This Year’s Sinjska Alka at the Invitation of President Milanović
The President of the Republic Zoran Milanović will attend this year’s Sinjska Alka tournament together with the President of Hungary Katalin Novák, who will be on a working visit to the Republic of Croatia due to her attendance at the event. The 308th edition of the Sinjska Alka will be held this year in Sinj on Sunday, 6 August.
The President of Hungary Katalin Novák will attend the Sinjska Alka tournament at the invitation of President Milanović, who is the patron of the event, as in previous years. Her visit to Sinj was agreed in advance with the leadership of the Alka Knights’ Society, which in recent years has endeavoured to internationalize the traditional chivalrous competition held in the town of Sinj and promote it outside the borders of Croatia.
As patron of the Sinjska Alka, President Milanović endorsed this effort of the Alka Knights Society and last year invited Borut Pahor, who was President of Slovenia at the time, to the event. Former President Pahor, who visited Sinj in 2022, was the first foreign statesman to attend the Sinjska Alka. In the meantime, in June of this year, Sinjska Alka was promoted in Vienna, the capital of Austria, where the tournament competitors – the alkars – presented their tradition and culture during a three-day program.
While in Sinj, President Milanović and President Novák will visit the Sikirica Gallery and tour the Sinjska Alka Museum.
At the Sinjska Alka tournament, President Milanović will also be accompanied by his wife Sanja Musić Milanović, while President Novák will be accompanied by her husband István Veres.