Pest - City Park and Heroes Monument

Városliget (City Park) is the largest park in Budapest. Hösök tere (Heroes Square) with its memorial and 2 museums and the end of Andrássy út, Budapest's most elegant avenue, are situated in front of the park. In the park you can find a lake, the zoo, the famous Gundel restaurant and the famous Széchenzyi Thermal Baths.

Millennium Memorial (or Millenary Monument) at Heroes Square. The monument has statues of people that founded the Magyar nation more than 1100 years ago, many of them kings and princes, and other important Hungarian people.

The monument was constructed 1896-1929.

The column is 36m high.

Palace of Art (Műcsarnok). This art museum was built in 1895 in an eclectic-neoclassical style.

Museum of Fine Arts was also built in an eclectic-neoclassical style. It was completed in 1906.

Vajdahunyad Castle at Heroes Square was built 1896-1908 and was designed by Ignác Alpár. A part of Vajdahunyad is a copy of a Transylvanian castle with the same name Today it houses the Agricultural Museum.

The long and elegant Andrassy Avenue seen from Heroes Square.

Városliget (City Park) is the largest park in Budapest. Unfortunately a part of the pound was temporatily drained.

To our surprise we found out that a lane in the park was named after Olof Palme, the Swedish prime minister who was murdered in Stockholm in 1986.
I have also heard there is a Anna Lind memorial somewhere in the park.

Olof Palme Sétány.

ING Head Offices. Designed by Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat, it is one of the most controversial modern buildings in Budapest. A building that makes you think with its sloping lines and two atrium. It consists of glass, aluminium, stone and concrete and was completed in 2004, the same year that Hungary entered the EU.. It is situated at the corner of Andrassy Avenue close to Heroes Square.