Liberty Square
Liberty Square is a public square located in the Lipótváros neighborhood of Budapest, Hungary. The square is a mix of business and residential. The United States Embassy in Hungary and the historicist style headquarters of the Hungarian National Bank abut the east side of the square.Photo: Civertan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Pedestrian zone
- Description: public place in Budapest
- Also known as: “Szabadsag ter” and “Szabadság tér”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Hungarian State Opera House and St. Stephen’s Basilica.
Hungarian State Opera House
Theater building
St. Stephen’s Basilica
Church
Photo: Leandro Neumann Ciuffo, CC BY 2.0.
St. Stephen's Basilica is a Roman Catholic basilica in Budapest, Hungary. It is named in honour of Stephen, the first King of Hungary, whose right hand is housed in the reliquary. St. Stephen’s Basilica is situated 500 metres southeast of Liberty Square.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Belváros and Pest.
Belváros
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Belváros or Downtown is the V. District of Budapest. It consists of two historic neighbourhoods with well-defined borders within the V. District - Lipótváros in the north includes the Parliament and many governmental buildings, Szent István Basilica and some museums, while the southern part is mostly high-class accommodations, shops and nightlife area.
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.
Víziváros
Photo: Tsy1980, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Víziváros is in Budapest. This article describes the outer part of the 1st district, which includes parts of Gellérthegy, Krisztinaváros, Tabán and Víziváros.
Liberty Square
- Category: square
- Location: Budapest, Central Hungary, Hungary, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.50459° or 47° 30′ 17″ northLongitude
19.05033° or 19° 3′ 1″ eastNamed after
libertyOpen location code
8FVXG332+R4OpenStreetMap ID
way 325571690OpenStreetMap feature
highway=pedestrianWikidata ID
Q299975
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Vietnamese—“Liberty Square” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Azadlıq meydanı (Budapeşt)”
- Azerbaijani: “Azadlıq meydanı”
- Chinese: “自由廣場”
- Dutch: “Szabadság tér”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميدان الحريه”
- Esperanto: “Placo Szabadság”
- French: “Szabadság tér”
- German: “Freiheitsplatz”
- German: “Szabadság tér”
- German: “Szabadság-Platz”
- Greek: “Πλατεία Ελευθερίας (Βουδαπέστη)”
- Hebrew: “כיכר החירות בבודפשט”
- Hungarian: “Szabadság tér”
- Italian: “Szabadság tér”
- Japanese: “自由広場”
- Korean: “자유광장”
- Russian: “Площадь Свободы (Будапешт)”
- Russian: “Площадь Свободы”
- Serbian: “Trg slobode”
- Serbian: “Трг слободе (Будимпешта)”
- Serbian: “Трг слободе”
- Spanish: “Plaza de la Libertad (Budapest)”
- Spanish: “Plaza de la Libertad”
- Turkish: “Özgürlük Meydanı”
- Turkish: “Szabadság tér”
- Vietnamese: “Quảng trường Tự do (Budapest)”
- Vietnamese: “Quảng trường Tự do”
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