Heroes' Square
Grand plaza framed by a triumphal column and sweeping colonnades honoring a nation's founders and heroes.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Heroes' Square in Budapest centers on a single day, 16 June 1989, when a quarter of a million people gathered to rebury Imre Nagy, the executed leader of the 1956 uprising, alongside an empty sixth coffin standing for the unnamed dead. It follows the events of that reburial beneath the square's towering column. Listen for who stepped up to the microphone that afternoon, and what the day set into motion.
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