Újbuda and Tétény | |
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Újbuda and Tétény are neighborhoods in the southwest of Budapest.
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The district has a few stops of the new metro line 4.
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Tetény
Soviet soldier in the Statues Park
- 1 Memento Park (Szoborpark) XXII. Balatoni út and corner of Szabadkai utca (Public transport Bus from “Újbuda Központ” - corner of Fehérvári út and Bocskai út (Allee shopping center): bus No 150 in Campona, get off at Memento Parc stop or direct bus from the city center),
36 1 424 7500
Mon.- Sun. : 19 h-dusk.
1 500 HUF, Student with ISIC card: 1 000 HUF, accepts Budapest Card and Hungary Card. – Memento Park is an open-air museum, dedicated to monumental statues from the Communist period of Hungary (1949-1989). There are statues of Lenin, Marx, Engels and, Dimitrov as well and several Hungarian Communist leaders. The Statues Park, was first designed by the literary historian László Szörényi in 1989 when he suggested that the various statues of Lenin from all over Hungary could be combined into one "Lenin Park". According to Ákos Eleőd, the architect: "This park is dedicated to dictatorship but at the same time, because we can talk about it, design it and build it, this park is dedicated to democracy because after all, only democracy is capable of giving the possibility of letting us think freely about the dictatorship. " Visitors can thus interpret this as a claim that the Hungarian spirit is stronger than communism. Souvenirs for sale are CDs of Hungarian Communist combat songs, reproductions of Hungarian Communist Party membership booklets, postcards and posters.