City Park (Budapest)

It is a 0.9-by-0.6-mile (1,400 by 970 m) rectangle, with an area of 302 acres (1.2 km2),[1][2] 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.

Updated Map 2022[3] The area was formerly called Ökör-dűlő, meaning "Oxmeadow".

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, lit.

[citation needed] 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.