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Memento Park

An open-air park of giant communist statues taken down after 1989, with a copy of Stalin's boots.

Photo: Ferran Cornellà · CC BY-SA 3.0
Open
Every day
Price
Paid
Time Needed
1½ hours
Address
Balatoni út – Szabadkai utca, 1223 BudapestDirections
Getting There
Bus 101 or 150 from Kelenföld station (Metro line 4).

Why Go

Lenin, Marx and heroic workers stand in a field on the edge of the city, gathered from Budapest's squares after the fall of communism.

The boots are a copy of those left on their plinth when crowds toppled Stalin's statue in 1956.

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