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d Memento Park –
Statue Park
Memento Park - Szoborpark
Balatoni út & Szabadkai utca.
Tel (06 1) 424 75 00. @ 101, 150.
Open 10am–dusk daily. &
∑ mementopark.hu
In 1991, Budapest’s City Council
decided to gather in one place
Communist monuments which
had for merly occupied prestigious
locations in the city.
The park has been enlarged and
features gigantic monuments of
Viewpoint at Eagle Hill Nature Reserve the Communist regime. Statues of
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, VI Lenin
p Budapest exhibitions focus on the history and Hungarian Communist heroes
Congress Center of theatre and contemporary stand side by side, headed by the
theatre in Hungary. The leader of the 1919 revolution in
Budapest Kongresszusi Központ romantic garden features the Hungary (see p36), Béla Kun.
Jagelló út 1–3. Information: Alkotás út busts of several writers, together Stalin’s Tribune is a replica of the
63–67 Tel (06 1) 372 57 00. @ 8, 105, with a number of other cultural original grandstand from which
112. v 61. Open For events. ∑ bcc.hu figures in Hungary's history. Communist leaders greeted the
crowds. Above the tribune stood
Opened in 1985, this large an 8­m (26­ft) high bronze of
arts complex houses a concert s Eagle Hill Nature Stalin, but it was pulled down
hall, conference rooms and a Reserve during the national Uprising in
restaurant. It hosts international 1956 and only the boots remain.
conferences and events such as Sashegy Természetvédelmi Terület The Barakk Museum has
dance performances and gala Tájék utca 26. Tel (06 30) 408 43 70. exhibitions on everyday life under
concerts. The building was @ 8, 105. Open Mar–Oct: 10am–6pm the Communist regime, and a
designed, with the neigh­ Tue, Fri–Sun. 8 cinema has a screening of the
bouring Novotel Budapest City special methods used by the
Hotel, by the architect József A nature reserve more or less Communist secret services.
Finta. The Tree of Life decorating in the centre of a city of nearly
the main wall of the Congress two million inhabitants is a
Hall is by József Király. remarkable phenomenon.
Access to the summit of this
steep, 266­m (872­ft) high hill
a Gizi Bajor to the west of Gellért Hill (see
Actors' Museum pp92–3) is strictly regulated to
Bajor Gizi Színészmúzeum protect the extremely rare
animal and plant species found
Stromfeld Aurél út 16. Tel (06 1) 225 here. A smart resi dential quarter,
31 61. @102, 105. Open 2–6pm which lies on the lower slope
Wed–Sun. & 8
of Eagle Hill, extends almost
to the fence of the reserve
This museum was opened in and the craggy 30­ha (74­acre)
1952, in a garden villa which once wilderness that it encloses.
belonged to Gizi Bajor, a leading It is well worth taking a
Hungarian actress of her day. guided walk, particularly in
Today it is home to the Hungarian spring or early autumn. Only
Theatre Museum and Institute. here is it possible to see sesleria
The permanent collection sadleriana, also known as
celebrates the birth of theatre Pannonian Bluegrass, a cyan­
performance with exhibits of coloured grass species. The
furniture, portraits, props, reserve is also home to a type
costumes, models, manuscripts, of spider not found anywhere
video recordings and photos, else in the world, as well as
and takes visitors back to the to extraordinary, colourful
world of theatre in the 19th and butterflies and to ablepharus Cubist-style statues of Marx and Engels
early 20th century. Temporary kitaibelii, a rare lizard. in the Memento Park – Statue Park

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