Cemeteries and memorials to visit Hungary

The lead balls embedded in the walls of the Ministry of Agriculture (Agrár miniszterium) - bullet holes fired by the Red Army in 1956 at Hungarian protesters - bring us back to still nearby wounds in the monumental Parliament Square, completely reorganized in 2014, by Orbán's government. A memorial hall of the revolution was inaugurated under the square. Statues of Kossuth, Tisza, and Rákóczi stand in its vicinity.

Fleeing the Ottoman Turks, the Serbian refugees took the body of their national hero, Prince (Tsar) Lazar Hrebeljanović. He was killed in the battle of Kosovo at war with the Ottoman Sultan in 1389. The Serbs settled in Szentendre buried it in a church built later, in 1690, and took it with them when they returned to Serbia. The location where these relics had been hidden has been marked with a cross since 1778.

Plot 301 of the new municipal cemetery is very famous. It was in this mass grave that the body of Imre Nagy, the great organizer of communist reformism, was dumped anonymously after he and his supporters were tried by a special court in 1958. It was only on June 16, 1989 that a national funeral was organized. The cemetery is partly Jewish: do not miss the mausoleum of Bela Lajta. The graves can be reached from Kozma Street.