Memento Park

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    Memento Park is an open-air museum in Budapest, Hungary, dedicated to monumental statues from Hungary’s Communist period (1949–1989). There are statues of Lenin, Marx, and Engels, as well as several Hungarian Communist leaders. The park was designed by Hungarian architect akos Eled, who won the competition announced by the Budapest General Assembly (Fva¡rosi Kazgyles) in 1991.

    A quote by the architect on the project: This park is about dictatorship. And at the same time, because it can be talked about, described, built, this park is about democracy. After all, only democracy is able to give the opportunity to let us think freely about dictatorship.

    Memento Park is divided into two sections: Statue Park, officially named “A Sentence About Tyranny” Park after a poem of the same name by Gyula Ilyes, and Witness Square (also called Neverwas Square). Statue Park houses 42 of the statues that were removed from Budapest after the fall of communism. Witness Square holds a replica of Stalin’s Boots which became a symbol of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 after the statue of Stalin was pulled down from its pedestal in 1956.

    Questo elemento è presente anche nelle lingue: Inglese Francese Spagnolo Tedesco Portoghese, Portogallo Russo

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