Boros Géza: Statue Park - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2002)

A round trip to the past

completed with the implementation of plans approved in 2001. A large proportion of the 25-30,000 visitors coming here each year are from abroad, which indicates that the Statue Park has become one of the internationally noted attractions of Budapest.

A round trip to the past

The designer of the Statue Park had to build from ready-made material. Not every statue scheduled for dismantling was actually brought to the park. For example, a bust of Ho Chi Minh was donated to the Vietnamese Embassy, Marshal Malinovsky's bust standing in Kőbánya was stolen, and the double statue of Sándor Fürst and Imre Sallai, which had earlier been temporarily removed from its location in Munkásőr Park (Workers’ Militia Park) by Gyöngyösi út, has gone missing despite years of searching. The collection in the Statue Park is a

■ The monument o/f Sándor Fürit and Imre Sallai by Aladár Farkas, 1973

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