Heroes' Square (Budapest)

Heroes' Square is a major Budapest square featuring the Millennium Monument, which includes statues of the Seven chieftains of the Magyars and other Hungarian leaders. It sits at the outbound end of Andrássy Avenue next to City Park and is flanked by the Museum of Fine Arts and the Palace of Art.

Don't miss

• The central column topped by Archangel Gabriel holding the Holy Crown of St. Stephen and a two-barred apostolic cross.
• Seven mounted figures of Magyar chieftains at the column's base, with Árpád in front.
• The Memorial Stone of Heroes, a cenotaph often mistaken for a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, but no remains are interred.
• Two matched colonnades with statues of Hungarian historical figures, plus allegorical statues representing Labour and Wealth, War, Peace, and Knowledge and Glory.
• A flat bronze plate behind the cenotaph marking an artesian well that supplies water to the Széchenyi thermal bath.

Tickets & tours

Ways to visit Heroes' Square (Budapest)

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Getting there

Know before you go

• The square hosts the Museum of Fine Arts on the left and the Palace of Art on the right.
• It lies at the outbound end of Andrássy Avenue, next to City Park.
• The Memorial Stone of Heroes is fenced off and only opened for foreign dignitaries and official ceremonies.
• An artesian well beneath the cenotaph, drilled in 1878, produces 831 liters of hot water per minute at 74°C.

A bit of history

Construction of the Millennium Monument started in 1896 to mark the thousand-year anniversary of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin and the founding of the Hungarian state in 896. The square was named in 1900, and the monument was largely completed by 1906. Originally, statues of Habsburg rulers occupied five spaces on the left colonnade, but these were replaced after World War II damage. On 16 June 1989, a crowd of 250,000 gathered here for the reburial of executed leader Imre Nagy.