Liszt Ferenc tér
Pedestrian square of cafe terraces beneath an Art Nouveau music academy and a pianist statue.
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This guide to Liszt Ferenc tér in Budapest opens in 1948, when two statues honoring a revolutionary and an architect vanished from the square overnight under a flimsy official excuse. It reaches back to the square's start as a silk factory street in the 1780s, its transformation into a park and then a square in 1907, the same year an Art Nouveau music academy opened on its edge under its first director, Franz Liszt. Best heard from a café terrace, facing the Academy's frescoed facade.
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