Heroes' Square Budapest

Also known as Hősök tere

Heroes' Square (Hosok tere) was built in 1896 to celebrate a thousand years since the Magyar tribes settled the Carpathian Basin, and every element of its design was chosen to make Hungary's antiquity visible on paper. The Archangel Gabriel atop the 36-meter column holds the Holy Crown of St.

Heroes’ Square (Hosok tere) in Budapest was built for Hungary’s 1896 Millennium celebrations, marking a thousand years since the Magyar conquest. The 36-meter central column topped by the Archangel Gabriel and the seven mounted chieftains at the base were designed to make Hungarian antiquity physically visible. The semicircular colonnades show statues of 14 kings and national heroes (the original Habsburg figures were replaced postwar). On 16 June 1989, the square held 250,000 people for the reburial of Imre Nagy, the executed 1956 uprising leader, in the symbolic end of communist Hungary. Free and always accessible. Metro Line 1 (yellow) to Hosok tere, at the end of the Andrassy Avenue UNESCO boulevard. The Museum of Fine Arts borders the square on the left.