Statue Park

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  • Address
    XXII Szabadkai út & Balatoni út, South Buda
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  • Phone
    424 7500
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  • Transport
    tram: 49 from V Deák Ferenc tér in Pest
bus: yellow Volán bus from stand 7 at terminus to Diósd-Érd

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Lonely Planet review

Home to more than 40 busts, statues and plaques of Lenin, Marx, Béla Kun and 'heroic' workers that have ended up on trash heaps in other former socialist countries, Statue Park is a truly mind-blowing place to visit.

Ogle at the socialist realism and try to imagine that at least four of these monstrous monuments were erected as recently as the late 1980s; a few of them, including the Béla Kun memorial of our 'hero' in a crowd by fence-sitting sculptor Imre Varga, were still in place in early 1992.

To reach this socialist Disneyland, take tram 19 from I Batthyány tér in Buda, tram 49 from V Deák Ferenc tér in Pest or red-numbered bus 7 from V Ferenciek tere in Pest to the terminus at XI Etele tér. From there catch a yellow Volán bus from stand 7 to Diósd-Érd; you'll want the fifth stop.

A direct bus departs from in front of the Le Meridien Budapest hotel on V Deák Ferenc tér daily at year-round, with an extra departure at March to October and additional times in July and August.