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Hungary – Stymphalian Birds in Hungary

The Square of Heroes, and Castle of Vajdahunyad which can be found at the centre of City Park, were built for the 1000 anniversaries of 896 when the Hungarian conquested Carpatian basin. Later on the building complex was expended with an artificial lake, Ice Rink, Budapest Zoo & Botanical Garden, Capital Circus of Budapest, the closed Amusement Park, Széchenyi Termal Bath and Swimming Pool, Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Gallery. Also you can find here Transport Museum and Petőfi Music Hall.

Details of the sight: http://www.budapest.com/budapest_kalauz/latnivalok/varosliget.hu.html. The history of the City Park, freetime and cultural activities, statues and maps: http://varosliget.info.

The QR code of the City Park:

Others:

• http://www.szepmuveszeti.hu • http://www.mucsarnok.hu • http://www.zoobudapest.com • http://www.mmkm.hu/index.p

hp/hu/kozlekedesimuzeum • http://www.mezogazdasagimu

zeum.hu/article.php?article_id=1

• http://www.petoficsarnok.hu • http://www.szechenyifurdo.hu • http://www.varosligetcafe.hu

Zsigmond Strobl Kisfaludi (1884-1975) who was rewarded with the Kossuth-price, twice, is well-known across the country (and abroad), as a great Hungarian sculptor. He had a great talent in illustrating movement, forming characters and capturing the symbols. From 1925, the statue was placed on the Margit Island, in front of the Hungarian Athletics Clubs’s sport track. Later on it has been destroyed, but in 1929 the capital city bought it and it has been remade with bronze and placed in front of the ice skate park’s entrance in the background we can see the top of it. In 1926 a rich American magnate bought it, and it was transported to the United States. A copy of it can be found in: Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, University of California; Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Garden; Indonesia, Djakarta, in front of gubernational palace; Zalaegerszeg, next to the sports hall; Moscow; Stockholm, National Museum.

Sights

The City Park is a section in Budapest, it’s the world’s first public park that’s open for everyone. It lies on 100 hectares of area int he XIV. district. Out of this area, about 81 hectares is the actual park, where you can find roughly 6500 trees. This area is a really popular, it’s a cultural centre of the capital city, but you can also find sculptures and monuments there.

Zsigmond Strobl Kisfaludi: Archer (1918-19). It imitates the apperance of Hercules, who was shooting at the deathbringer, human-eater birds from Stymphalos. The inspiration came from Shooting Hercules (1912) statue from Émile-Antoine Bourdelle French sculptor (USA, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art). The archer’s movement still resembles the effort, but with his spreaded fingers he just unleashed the string, and from his opened mouth, we tend to hear the great shout of the victory from the deepest place of his soul what he defeated the birds with.