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several museums, including the
Ráth György Museum of Far
Eastern Art that houses artifacts
from China and Japan brought by
19th-century Hungarian traders.
There are two signiicant churches
in the street: a Calvinist one at
the southern end and a Lutheran
one towards Városliget.
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Map E3
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Heroes' Square
Communist demonstrations
once took place in the vast open
space of Heroes' Square. In fact,
the square predates Hungary's
Communist era and was originally
laid out for the Millennium Cele-
brations of 1896. Today, people
come to visit the Millennium
Monument at the square's centre,
while trafic runs through its
southern side. It is lanked by two
splendid buildings - the Museum
of Fine Arts
(see p89)
and the
Palace of Art.
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Map E2 • Hősök tere
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Millennium Monument
The elegant Andrássy Street
Communist secret police who
used the building from 1945 to
1956. Today, it is a museum known
as the House of Terror that depicts
the horrors of the Nazi and Soviet
regimes.
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Map L2, M2 • House of
Terror: XIV, Andrássy út 60; 374 26 00;
open 10am-6pm Tue-Fri, 10am-7:30pm
Sat-Sun; adm; www.terrorhaza.hu
Standing at the heart of
Heroes' Square, the Millennium
Monument was erected to
commemorate the 1,000-year
anniversary of the conquest of the
Carpathian Basin by the Magyars.
At the top of the 36-m (110-ft)
column is a statue of the
Archangel Gabriel, who allegedly
offered St Stephen (István) the
crown. At the foot of the column
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Franz Liszt Museum
More famously known by his
Germanic name, Franz, Ferenc
Liszt was Hungary's greatest
composer. He lived here from
1877 until he died in 1886. The
house became a museum in 1896
and the furniture, pianos and
manuscripts give an insight into
the life and work of this
extraordinary man.
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Map D3
• VI, Vörösmarty utca 35 • 322 98
04 • Open 10am- 6pm Mon-Fri,
9am-5pm Sat • Adm •
www.lisztmuseum.hu
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Városligeti Avenue
A serene tree-lined
avenue, Városligeti fasor
is the gentle counterpart
to the more commercial
Andrássy út. Numerous
embassies line the
avenue, and there are also
Original furnishings in the salon, Franz Liszt Museum
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