Liberty Statue
The Liberty Statue or Freedom Statue is a monument at the east end of the Citadella on Gellért Hill in Budapest, Hungary. It commemorates those who sacrificed their lives for the independence, freedom, and prosperity of Hungary.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Karelj, Public domain.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: sculpture in Budapest, Hungary
- Also known as: “Felszabadulási emlékmű”
- Inscription: “Mindazok emlékére akik életüket áldozták Magyarország függetlenségéért szabadságáért és boldogulásáért.”
- Wheelchair access: limited
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Gellért Hill and Rudas Baths.
Gellért Hill
Peak
Photo: Kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gellért Hill is a 235 m high hill overlooking the Danube in Budapest, Hungary. It is located in the 1st and the 11th districts. The hill was named after Saint Gerard who was thrown to death from the hill.
Rudas Baths
Water park
Photo: Elekes Andor, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rudas Bath or Rudas fürdő is a thermal bath in Budapest, Hungary which is claimed to have medicinal properties. It was founded in 1571/1572 during the time of Ottoman rule. Rudas Baths is situated 260 metres north of Liberty Statue.
Gellért Hill Cave
Cave
Photo: Ramirez HUN, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Gellért Hill Cave is part of a network of caves within Gellért Hill in Budapest, Hungary. The cave is also referred to as "Saint Ivan's Cave", regarding a hermit who lived there and is believed to have used the natural thermal water of a muddy lake next to the cave to heal the sick. Gellért Hill Cave is situated 370 metres southeast of Liberty Statue.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tabán and Pest.
Tabán
Suburb
The Tabán usually refers to an area within the 1st district of Budapest, the capital of Hungary. It lies on the Buda side of the Danube, to the south of György Dózsa Square, on the northern side of Elisabeth Bridge and to the east of Naphegy.
Pest
Suburb
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pest is the part of Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, that lies on the eastern bank of the Danube. Pest was administratively unified with Buda and Óbuda in 1873; prior to this, it was an independent city.
Liberty Statue
- Categories: sculpture, tourism, historic site, and monument
- Location: Budapest, Central Hungary, Hungary, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.48675° or 47° 29′ 12″ northLongitude
19.04803° or 19° 2′ 53″ eastInception
April 5th, 1947Open location code
8FVXF2PX+M6OpenStreetMap ID
node 1488974596OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monumentOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=limitedWikidata ID
Q933182
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Liberty Statue” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تمثال الحرية”
- Bulgarian: “Статуя на свободата (Будапеща)”
- Bulgarian: “Статуя на свободата”
- Catalan: “Estàtua de la Llibertat”
- Chinese: “自由女神像”
- Chinese: “自由紀念碑”
- Czech: “Socha Svobody”
- Danish: “Frihedsstatue”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تمثال الحريه”
- Esperanto: “Statuo de Libereco”
- Finnish: “Vapaudenpatsas”
- French: “Statue de la Liberté”
- German: “Freiheitsstatue (Budapest)”
- German: “Freiheitsstatue”
- Hebrew: “פסל החירות (בודפשט)”
- Hebrew: “פסל החירות”
- Hungarian: “Szabadság-szobor”
- Indonesian: “Patung Kebebasan”
- Italian: “Monumento alla Liberazione (Budapest)”
- Italian: “Monumento alla Liberazione”
- Japanese: “自由の像”
- Korean: “해방기념비”
- Polish: “Statua Wolności”
- Romanian: “Statuia Libertății din Budapesta”
- Romanian: “Statuia Libertății”
- Russian: “Статуя свободы”
- Russian: “Статуя Свободы”
- Spanish: “Estatua de la Libertad”
- Turkish: “Özgürlük Heykeli (Budapeşte)”
- Turkish: “Özgürlük Heykeli”
- Ukrainian: “Статуя Свободи (Будапешт)”
- Ukrainian: “Статуя Свободи”
- Urdu: “مجسمہ آزادی (بوداپست)”
- Urdu: “مجسمہ آزادی”
- Uzbek: “Ozodlik haykali Budapesht”
- Vietnamese: “Tượng Tự do (Budapest)”
- Vietnamese: “Tượng Tự do”
- Western Panjabi: “مجسمہ آزادی (بوداپست)”
- Western Panjabi: “مجسمہ آزادی”
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