Park Memento
1223 Budapest Balatoni ú t - Szabadkai utca sarok, Hungary
Description:
Memento Park is a piece of the past of the socialist world. It is best to get acquainted with the history of the USSR in advance to understand what this park will tell you. This place goes back to the first half of the XX century, when there was still communism. In the park you can find sculptures of the most famous figures of this time and sculptures of those who invented the theory of communism.
Memento Park is a 20-minute drive from Pest. The park was created in 1993 by Akosh Eled. The so-called open-air museum turned out, in which all the sculptures and monuments of the country of that time were brought.
In the park you can meet: Lenin, Marx, Engels, Stalin. Only in sculptures, of course. The park has a socialist-era atmosphere, you can see an old telephone box or a car, you can see sculptures of Hungarian Communists with Bela Kun, the leader of the 1919 revolution.
You can get to the park by bus, every day from Budapest at 11 o'clock from Deak Square a bus goes to Memento Park. The fare includes the cost of a ticket to the park.
The price for visiting the park is about 300 to 2000 HUF. The park is really worth the money, you won’t regret it.