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This is a three-way bridge, connecting Buda and Pest across the Danube. It is the second oldest public bridge in Budapest. It was designed by French engineer Ernest Goüin and built between 1872–1876. This bridge leads up to Margaret Island, its two parts enclosing 165 degrees with each other at the embranchment towards the island. The reason for this unusual geometry is the fact the small extension to connect to Margaret Island was hastily inserted into the original design but not built until two decades later due to lack of funds. It is 637.5 m in length and 25 m in width.
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Igazságügyi és Rendészeti Minisztérium
Protected architectural monument
Kossuth Emlékmű
A public monument dedicated to former Hungarian Regent-President Lajos Kossuth in front of the Hungarian Parliament Building. The memorial is an important Hungarian national symbol and scene of official celebrations. The group depicted the members of the first Hungarian parliamentary government: Lajos Kossuth (in the middle), Pál Eszterházy, Gábor Klauzál, József Eötvös, István Széchenyi, Prime Minister Lajos Batthyány, Bertalan Szemere, Ferenc Deák and Lázár Mészáros. Horvay’s composition was criticised because Kossuth played only a minor constitutional role in the first cabinet. Art critics condemned the melancholic atmosphere of the memorial and the sculpture remained somewhat unpopular.
Curia of Hungary Kúria, Fővárosi Törvényszék
Protected architectural monument
Néprajzi Múzeum
Sometimes said to resemble the Reichstag (parliament) building in Berlin, the white neo-Renaissance façade complements the neo-Gothic Parliament building just across the square. Do not miss the richly decorated interior, including the ceiling frescoes by Károly Lotz (who also frescoed the State Opera's ceiling). The building was used to house the Supreme Court and chief public prosecutor's office, explaining some of the motifs used in the frescoes.
Országház
The Hungarian National Parliament building is the largest in Europe, designed by architect Imre Steindl for the 1896 millennial celebrations, and built 1880-1902. It is based on England's Parliament building, and supposedly is one meter wider and longer than that building, just a little bit of architectural conceit. The building is so immense, the weak alluvial soil along the Danube had to be reinforced with a 2-m (7-foot) deep concrete foundation. Not surprising, as the building is 270 m long and 125 m wide, with 691 rooms and 20 km (12.5 miles) of corridors. The lacy white neo-Gothic froth covering the building is actually educational: 88 statues representing Hungarian rulers, princes and military commanders. These statues are small and cannot be readily distinguished from the ground, but they are there.
Kossuth Lajos tér parkja, previously known by several names including; Országház tér ("Parliament Square") (1898–1927), Tömő tér or Stadt Schopper Platz in German ("Landfill Square")(1853–1898).
The area of green space is 25,000m². The trees are: Silver firs, yews and large magnolias. Also here the largest flower garden of the district II. (over 600m²). And there are a coüple sculptures such II. Rákóczi equestrian statue ( was a Hungarian nobleman and leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburgs in 1703-11 as the prince (fejedelem) of the Estates Confederated for Liberty of the Kingdom of Hungary. He was also Prince of Transylvania, an Imperial Prince, and a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Today he is considered a national hero in Hungary.) On the south side of the square sits the poet Attila József (accord to the legend he sat,-in nearby, on the bank of the river and wrote his famous poem By the Danube); on the northern part of the park is the Kossuth monument (Lajos Kossuth was a Hungarian lawyer, journalist, politician and Regent-President of the Kingdom of Hungary during the revolution of 1848–49.) and a full-length statue of Count István Tisza, a renewed version of the origin made by Imre Elek.