Heroes´ Square (Hosok tere), Budapest

The square is a spectacular architectural unit. Its determinant object is the historicist, romantic Millennium Monument (Millenniumi emlékmű) which was erected on the 1000th anniversary of the Hungarian settlement.

On the elongated axis of Andrássy Avenue (Andrássy út) which meets György Dózsa Street, there stands the marble column of the Millennium Monument which signposts the square from afar.

Heroes' Square is bordered by the City Park (Városliget) and is framed by two imposing buildings. Looking from György Dózsa Street, the Museum of Fine Arts (Szépművészeti Múzeum), the final example of Hungarian eclectic architecture, is on the left, and, opposite, is the Hall of Arts (Műcsarnok), a neo-renaissance palace.

The determinant element of the square is the Millennium Monument, which consists of the afore-mentioned marble pillar around which there are the Seven Chiefs of the Hungarian Settlement,  nd then the crescent-shaped colonnade with its sculptures of kings, governors, statemen and other suzerains.

The square was completed in 1929 when the memorial stone of the unknown soldier, Memorial of the Heroes of the Nation, was placed in the symbolic centre, thus the name Heroes' Square.