City Park (Budapest)


The City Park is a public park close to the centre of Budapest, Hungary. It is a rectangle, with an area of, 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, one of Hungary's World Heritage sites.
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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 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 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 is sited in the location of the Liget Project, Europe's largest urban-cultural development project, including landscape architectural investments.

Sports

The park hosted motorsport events in the 1950s.

Main sights

City Park includes the following sights: