Landmark sights in Budapest
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Liberty Monument
The lovely lady with the palm frond, proclaiming freedom throughout the city from atop Gellért Hill, is just east of the Citadella. Standing 14m high, she was erected in 1947 in tribute to the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Budapest in 1945. But the victims’ names (previously in Cyrillic letters on the plinth) and the statues of the Soviet soldiers were removed in 1992 and sent to what is now called Memento Park. In fact, the monument had been designed by the politically ‘flexible’ sculptor Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl much earlier for the ultraright government of Admiral Miklós Horthy. After the war, when procommunist monuments were in short supply, Kisfaludi Strobl…
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Lookout Gallery
Contained in the water tower is the Lookout Gallery. Climbing the 153 steps will earn you a stunning 360-degree view of the island, Buda and Pest.
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Imre Nagy Statue
Southeast of V Kossuth Lajos tér is an Imre Nagy statue; he was the reformist communist prime minister executed in 1958 for his role in the Uprising two years earlier. It was unveiled with great ceremony in the summer of 1996.
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