Do you know the Hungarian history? Here are the national memorials

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According to femina.hu, these are the places every Hungarian has to see.

Kossuth Square

Kossuth Lajos Square is a top national memorial in Budapest, as the nation’s main square and the venue of a number of significant historical events. Located in the 5th district, on the bank of the Danube, the newly renovated square was handed over by President Janos Ader on March 15 2014.

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Heroes’ Square

Heroes’ Square

Decision was made about constructing the Hungarian Millenial monument symbolizing the greatness of the nation in 1895, but the place is still the most famous and most influential square of Budapest. The place, which contains the statues of the rulers, sculptures of the leaders of the Hungarian Conquest and the symbolic graves of the Hungarian heroic dead is a the World Heritage Site.

Hungarian National Museum

The National Museum, in addition to it hosts the richest collection of the Hungarian past – even created in the wake of the offering of Istvan Szechenyi –, was an important place of our historical events as well, it has become the symbol of the 1848 revolution too, femina.hu says.

Rakoskeresztur New Public Cemetery parcels

298., 300. and 301.parcels of the cemetery considered national memorial place, as emblems of the protest against the communist dictatorship. Here are buried the citizens executed after the illegal trials in 1945 and 1956.

Buda Castle Quarter

Budapest’s Castle District, also a part of the World Heritage, at the same time is the richest part of the capital in historical monuments. Here you can find the Office of the President of the Republic, the Matthias Church, the National Szechenyi Library and the National Gallery as well.

Debrecen Reformed Church and College

Debrecen Reformed Church
Debrecen Reformed Church

The college was the alma mater of several Hungarian excellence, and the Great Church was the place where the dethronement of the Habsburgs and the Declaration of Independence were published on April 14, 1849.

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