"Stalin's Grandstand, Statue Park, Budapest, Hungary " by Petr Svarc
Memento Park - Statue Park Museum, Budapest, Hungary. Historic figures: This statue of Vladimir Lenin poised on a plinth while in the middle of a speech is one of the many on display at Memento Park.
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Dotted throughout Budapest are a number of interesting stone and copper statues, and while some are obvious about what they represent - grand historical figures at prominent landmarks, for example - there are others that have a more subtle story behind them. Discovering the secrets of these statues is a city tour all on its own.
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The park is open every day from 10 am until dusk. Adults: 1.500 HUF. Students: 1.000 HUF. The entrance is free with a valid Budapest Card. It's possible to get a guided tour (in English) of the park for 1200HUF if you'd like more insight into the meaning/people behind the statues. The tours start at 11:45 each day and last 50 minutes.
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Follow us Address: 1223 Budapest Balatoni út - Szabadkai utca sarok Phone number: +36-1-424-7500 Website: http://www.mementopark.hu/pages/home/?lang=en When Communist systems collapsed in Eastern Europe in 1989-90, the vast symbols of the dictatorship were removed from the streets everywhere in what seemed like a blink of an eye.
Szabor (Statue) Park, Budapest Postcards from the Transition
Statue Park. Displayed in the Park are 41 pieces of art from the Communist era between 1945 and 1989. Besides the gigantic works depicting Lenin, Marx, Engels, Dimitrov, or Captain Ostapenko, stand here allegorical monuments of 'Hungarian-Soviet Friendship' and 'Liberation' other statues of personalities from the labor movement and soldiers of the Soviet Red Army.
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The communist statues at Memento Park in Budapest are a reminder of that era. As the Berlin Wall fell in Germany, statues of Lenin and others were torn down in Eastern Europe. In many countries they were destroyed and sent to the trash heap. In Hungary, however, they were determined never to forget this sad era in the country's history.
Szabor (Statue) Park, Budapest Postcards from the Transition
The park features 42 public sculptures erected throughout Budapest to promote the ideology of the communist political system between 1945 and 1989. Good To Know. Budapest tourist infomation center. Opposite the façade of the Sculpture Park, on Witness Square, stands the architectural memento of Stalin's statue, together with its pedestal.
Szabor (Statue) Park, Budapest Postcards from the Transition
Closed on 25th December! Memento Park open from 10 A.M - to 4 P.M. every day. The spirit and statues of the communist dictatorship Memento Park is a unique attraction of Budapest. The Statue Park, the Barrack Cinema, the Photo Exhibition, the Stalin's Grandstand, and the Storage Showroom offer a complex experience for all ages.
Szabor (Statue) Park, Budapest Postcards from the Transition
Memento Park (Hungarian: Szoborpark) is an open-air museum in Budapest, Hungary, dedicated to monumental statues and sculpted plaques from Hungary's Communist period (1949-1989). There are statues of Lenin, Marx, and Engels, as well as several Hungarian Communist leaders.
Szabor (Statue) Park, Budapest Postcards from the Transition
Mementopark. December 25-én zárva. Minden más napon nyitva 10-16 óra között. A kommunista diktatúra szelleme és szobrai. A Memento Park Budapest különleges, egyedi látványossága. A Szoborpark Múzeum, a Barakk Mozi, a Fotókiállítás, a Sztálin Dísztribün és a Raktártárlat komplex élményt kínál minden korosztálynak.
Budapest’s Memento Park adds unrevealed communistera relics
The Statue Park is the main attraction of Budapest's Memento Park: an area consisting of five semicircles within a larger circle where 42 statues made between 1945 and 1989 depicting communist leaders, important figures of the labor movement, soldiers and Red Army officers are displayed.
Szabor (Statue) Park, Budapest Postcards from the Transition
Tickets. Admission: 3000 HUF/person. Discount price for students: 1800 HUF/person. Children: 1200 HUF/person (under the age of 14) Under the age of 6, entry to Memento Park is free of charge. For group discounts please contact us via email: [email protected]. Discount cards: Budapest Card, Hungary Card.
Szabor (Statue) Park, Budapest Postcards from the Transition
Book your tickets online for Memento Park, Budapest: See 1,307 reviews, articles, and 1,629 photos of Memento Park, ranked No.73 on Tripadvisor among 767 attractions in Budapest.. The famous Stalin boots statue on display is an artistic recreation. The indoor exhibition is simply a display of about 30 posters describing the 1956 uprising and.
Szabor (Statue) Park, Budapest Postcards from the Transition
Memento park is a beautiful park: it's a home to a number of gigantic statues, and other communist monuments. It is spacious, the statues are fascinating. There is a bunker, which houses a number of extremely unsettling statues of Lenin (and one Stalin). There also is a barrack which shows the communist history of Hungary.
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Address: corner of Balatoni út and Szabadkai utca in district XXII. Tel: +36 1 424 7500 Opening Hours: every day from 10.00 till sunset Entrance fees: adults: 1 500 HUF, FREE for Budapest Card holders, Students: 1 000 HUF, Children under 14 years of age: 600 HUF, Family ticket: (2 adults + children): 2 000 HUF.
Communist statues at Memento park in Budapest
894 Want to Visit? 835 Liberation Army Soldier User submitted (User submitted) When Communism collapsed in Hungary in 1989, the city of Budapest was left with many public works of art that.