Visiting Memento Park, Budapest A Communist Statue Graveyard Dark
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.
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The Statue Park displaying mementoes of the communist are. A short bus ride from downtown Budapest will take the visitor to a unique museum - or, if you like - to a whole different world. By displaying mementoes of the communist era, this unparalleled theme park is a powerful reminder of the fall of tyranny.
Memento Park (Budapest) All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go
Exhibitions Barrack Cinema Trabant Red Star Store Statue Park Displayed in the Park are 41 pieces of art from the Communist era between 1945 and 1989.
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Memento Park, situated in Budapest, offers an enthralling experience, transporting its visitors back to the days of the Cold War behind the formidable Iron Curtain. The park paints a vivid picture of gigantomania with its grand statues - comrades in mid-wave, towering representations of Red Army soldiers, and the infamous boots of Stalin.
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About The final resting place for fallen Communist statues, including those of Lenin, Marx and Engels, plus memorial plaques that were removed after the downfall of the Communist regime. Soviet model made gigantic sculptures from the Cold War, from behind the Iron Curtain. Gigantism, waving comrades, Stalin's boots, and the Red Army soldiers.
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Since 1993, Memento Park has been home to Hungary's fallen and toppled communist-era statues, a graveyard to dictators that provides a place to teach and remember, but not to idealise. I.
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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.
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Shortly after the fall of communism in 1991, Memento Park became the place where these communist statues went to die. (Memento Park, Budapest, Balatoni út - Szabadkai utca sarok, 1223 Hungary.
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837 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 celebrated that era. In.
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The main area of Memento Park is Statue Park, officially named "A Sentence About Tyranny" Park after a poem of the same name by Gyula Ilyés. It contains a series of oval lawns surrounded by statues of the most famous (or infamous) communist leaders and statues representing the ideals of communism.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Memento Park Budapest walking tour with a historian musement
Memento Park showcases the life in Hungary under the Soviet rule. Located on the outskirts of Budapest this park is not on the main tourist routes. This post will show you the main attractions of this "Socialist theme Park" so you can decide if it is worth visiting for you.
Budapest’s Memento Park adds unrevealed communistera relics
Memento Park - Statue park 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
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Memento park - Icons of Budapest's communist past What do you do with all your iconic communist statues when they're no longer welcome in the squares and parks of central Budapest? At Memento Park they've found a great solution - banish them to the outskirts of the city and make them into a prime tourist attraction.