PLACE KOSSUTH (KOSSUTH TÉR)
Read moreThe 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.
CROSS OF TSAR LAZAR (LÁZÁR CÁR EMLÉKKERESZTJE)
Read moreFleeing 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.