Budapest

Heroes Square
Heroes Square is "Budapest's answer to Berlin's Brandenburg Gate" and was cleaned and "refurbished in 1996". The Millennial Monument can be seen here and this is a "semicircular twin colonnade with statues of Hungary's kings and leaders between its pillars". In the open centre there is "a 118-foot stone column is crowned by a dynamic statue of [more...]

Heroes' Square
The author states that Heroes' Square is located "at the end of Pest's great boulevard" and describes it as being "one of the symbols of the city". The author talks briefy about the history of Heroes' Squre and states that "In 1989 a rally here on the day of the reburial of Imre Nagy" brought "300,000 people to the square". The author talks [more...]