Heroes’ square

Hősök Tere

This Eclectic monument is a semicircular construction, 85 metres wide, 25 metres deep (the most inner point is 25 metres from the two end points of the semicircle), 13 metres high, the distance between the two wings is 20 metres. Between the pillars stand 14 statues of kings (chieftain, governor), 7 on the left and 7 on the right. On the pedestal under the open niches in which the statues stand, are reliefs with inscriptions, illustrating historical events from the life of the person depicted by the statue above, or from that period of history. (source: www.hungarystartshere.com)

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Magyar Tudományos Akadémia

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences (in short: HAS, in Hungarian: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia) was founded in 1825, when Count István Széchenyi offered one year’s income of his estate for the purposes of a Learned Society at a district session of the Diet in Pressburg (Pozsony, present Bratislava, seat of the Hungarian Parliament at the time), and his example was followed by other delegates. Its task was specified as the development of the Hungarian language and the study and propagation of the sciences and the arts in Hungarian. It received its current name in 1845. Its central building was inaugurated in 1865, in neo-Renaissance style.

Thököly Imre

Thököly Imre

Count Imre Thököly de Késmárk (April 25, 1657 – September 13, 1705) was a Hungarian statesman, leader of an anti-Habsburg uprising, Prince of Transylvania. He was born at Kežmarok (Hungarian: Késmárk) in Royal Hungary (now Slovakia) in September 1657.

Bocskai István

Bocskai István

István Bocskai (1 January 1557 – 29 December 1606) was a Hungarian noble from Transylvania, between 1604-06 the leader of an anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary (more exactly in today’s Slovakia) – partly also in Moravia and Austria – , and from 1605-06 the prince of Transylvania.

Bethlen Gábor

Bethlen Gábor

Bethlen Gábor, (1580-November 15, 1629) was a prince of Transylvania (1613-1629), duke of Opole (1622-1625) and leader of an anti-Habsburg insurrection in the Habsburg Royal Hungary. His last armed intervention in 1626 was part of the Thirty Years’ War. He led an active Protestant-oriented foreign policy. (wikipedia)