City Park (Budapest)

Coordinates: 47°30′50″N 19°05′05″E / 47.51389°N 19.08472°E / 47.51389; 19.08472
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The Széchenyi Thermal Bath
The City Park Ice Rink with Vajdahunyad Castle in the background

The City Park (

Hungary's World Heritage sites
.

Map
  1. –
    Gundel Restaurant
  2. –
    Municipal Zoological and Botanical Garden
  3. – Municipal Grand Circus
  4. – Former Amusement Park
  5. –
    Széchenyi Medicinal Baths and Swimming Pool
  6. – Vajdahunyad Castle
  7. – Former
    Petőfi Hall
  8. – Former
    Transport Museum of Budapest
  9. – Heroes' Square
  10. – Museum of Fine Arts
  11. –
    Palace of Art

Updated Map 2022[3]

Name

The area was formerly called Ökör-dűlő, meaning "Oxmeadow". The first mention of the name comes from 1241 in the archaic form, Ukurföld. In the 18th century, the area was called Ochsenried in German. Around 1800 the official name was changed to Batthyány-erdő (Batthyány Forest) after its tenants, the Batthyány family. The first trees and planned walkways were established in 1751 and after the public park was created in the first decades of the 19th century the present-day name, Városliget (and its German version, Stadtwäldchen, lit.: "little city forest") was accepted and it became one of the first public parks in the world. [citation needed]

History

The City Park was the main venue of the 1896

Andrássy Avenue, Millennium Underground and the Grand Boulevard had been built. Városliget (Budapest City Park) museum additions and renewal Liget Project[4]

Sports

The park hosted motorsport events in the 1950s. [citation needed]

Main sights

City Park includes the following sights:[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "City Park, Budapest". aviewoncities.com. Archived from the original on 13 February 2019. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  2. ^ MapDevelopers.com (the area is displayed after clicking the inside of the selected polygon)
  3. ^ "Map of Városliget". ligetbudapest.hu. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  4. ^ "About Liget Budapest projekt". ligetbudapest.hu. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  5. ^ "City Park". Budapest.com. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
  6. ^ "Budapest Circus". Youtube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-13. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  7. ^ Youtube, Budapest Circus Lion Act
  8. ^ "budapestagent.com, Budapest Circus". Archived from the original on 2018-09-13. Retrieved 2016-10-17.
  9. ^ Inside the jaw-dropping House of Hungarian Music, retrieved 2022-08-16
  10. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  11. ^ "New Museum of Ethnography building in the City Park opens". ligetbudapest.hu. Retrieved 2022-08-16.

External links

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Budapest/Városliget.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to City Park (Budapest).

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