Hajós György: Heroes' Square - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2001)

Prince Árpád

not always historically authentic. (The horses of Asian origins that were ridden by the first Magyar settlers must have been of a smaller and an altogether different stature than Zala’s beasts, which look more like the sturdy animals ridden by the leaders in Árpád Feszty’s cyclorama than their putative models.)

It is the statue of Prince Árpád which occupies the central position on the plinth in the axis of Andrássy út. The 4.70-metre tall statue was set up in 1912. World War I and the political events in its wake together with the country’s declining economy did not make possible the installation of the statues of Előd, Ond, Kond and Tas before 1928, which was followed by the setting up of Huba and Töhötöm (Tétény) a year later, in 1929. Although the position of Árpád’s statue and the

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