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Sándor Petőfi
Addresses you can still visit
Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
Performed here
Hungarian National Museum
He addressed the revolutionary crowd outside the museum on March 15, 1848, although he did not recite the National Song here.
Commemorated here
Petőfi Bridge
Opened in 1937 as Miklós Horthy Bridge, this crossing was partly a Depression-era public-works project and initially led toward a sparsely developed Buda riverbank. Retreating German forces destroyed it in 1945; its 1952 replacement inherited the name of a temporary pontoon bridge and was politically recast as a socialist “structure of peace.”
Performed here
Pilvax Passage and Café
He recited the National Song during the revolutionary mobilization centered on the Pilvax.
Performed here
University Square
He recited the National Song to university students gathered on the square on March 15, 1848.
Traces in other cities
- Bratislava
- Sándor Petőfi Statue — The monument commemorates the Hungarian poet, who spent part of his struggling youth in Pressburg.
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