Many emblematic buildings and statues make up Budapest’s skyline, like that Parliament, the Vajdahunyad Castle or the Buda Castle complex. One of these significant attractions, the Statue of Liberty adorning Gellért Hill however, since July we can only see it under cover and within limits. However, Yettel is freeing the monument from its captivity for a short time in a frenzied drone show.
The most suitable location for observation is Fővám tér, where you can view the special celestial phenomenon accompanied by music. program recommendation is from.
If the weather were like the last few days, the event would be held on October 13.
The capital’s vernacular also calls it SörnyitoThe Statue of Liberty on Gellért Hill is one of the symbols of Budapest. The monument is 14 meters high, and its pedestal rises 40 meters above the 235-meter peak of the mountain. The monument standing at the south-eastern bastion of the Citadel is clearly visible from many points of the capital, the female figure holding a palm branch in her raised hand, a symbol of victory and peace, is a work of Zsigmond Strobl Kisfaludi completed in 1947. The official name of the original composition was the Liberation Monument, which was erected to commemorate the act of war by the Soviet army that drove the German army out of Budapest. After the fall of the socialist system and the revaluation of the Soviet liberation, the sculpture complex was somewhat transformed, and for example, the 4-meter-high statue of a Soviet soldier with a machine gun in the statue’s forecourt was removed, and the inscription on the statue’s pedestal was also changed, thus giving a new interpretation to the landmark of Budapest. The female figure symbolizing freedom soon became one of the city’s most important symbols after it was erected. Its popular nickname in Pest slang is “sörnító” because of its shape.
The entire Citadel is renewed
One of the main goals of the work is to open the closed Citadel, known to Hungarians as a symbol of oppression, to visitors, and the opening must be taken literally, because until now the interior of the contemporary fortress could only be accessed through a single entrance, so new entry points were created by breaking the continuity of the walls out by the cannon tower in the north and south direction, and behind the Statue of Liberty. These will make the Citadel more open and easily accessible from three directions.
Image: Economx / Tamás Nagy Hartl
In the part of the bastion behind the Statue of Liberty, the stair structure has already been completed, and the first cladding element has been added to the blade wall bordering the approach, and the white limestones from Süttő covering the wall system and the carved red limestones from Tardos, which close the wall from above, were covered with a special layer to make them durable. We write more about the plans here >>>
Regarding the cross planned for the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, Mayor Gergely Karácsony said that he considers it a bad and constantly provoked debate, which does nothing to make everyone feel at home in this country and city.
Source: www.economx.hu
