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Tour around The City Park in Budapest, 10/08/24. Hungary.
The City Park (Hungarian: Városliget, pronounced [ˈvaːroʃliɡɛt]; German: Stadtwäldchen) is a public park close to the centre of Budapest, Hungary. It is a 0.9-by-0.6-mile (1,400 by 970 m) rectangle, with an area of 302 acres (1.2 km2), located in District XIV of Budapest, between Hungária körút, Ajtósi Dürer sor, Vágány utca and Dózsa György út. Its main entrance is at Heroes' Square (Hősök tere), one of Hungary's World Heritage sites.
Name
The area was formerly called Ökör-dűlő, meaning "Oxmeadow". The first mention of the name comes from 1241 in the archaic form, Ukurföld. In the 18th century, the area was called Ochsenried in German. Around 1800 the official name was changed to Batthyány-erdő (Batthyány Forest) after its tenants, the Batthyány family. The first trees and planned walkways were established in 1751 and after the public park was created in the first decades of the 19th century the present-day name, Városliget (and its German version, Stadtwäldchen, "little city forest") was accepted and it became one of the first public parks in the world.
History
The City Park was the main venue of the 1896 millennium celebrations of Hungary, by which time Andrássy Avenue, Millennium Underground and the Grand Boulevard had been built. Városliget (Budapest City Park) museum additions and renewal Liget Project.
City Park includes the following sights:
Vajdahunyad Castle, opened in 1896
Széchenyi thermal bath
Budapest Zoo, including the Elephant House
Municipal Circus, opened in 1891
Gundel Restaurant, opened in 1894
Budapest Circus Building
House of Music, Hungary opened January 2022
Museum of Ethnography, opened 23 May 2022