Andrassy ut terminates opposite one of the best known groups of statues in Hungary, the Millenary Monument at Heroes? Square. Construction began in 1896, and the centrepiece is a 118-foot Corinthian column supporting a 16-foot statue of the archangel Gabriel. In his right hand he is holding the holy Hungarian crown, and in his left the double Apostolic cross ? just as he is supposed to have appeared in a dream to Hungary?s first king.
The statue won the Grand Prix at the 1900 Paris World Exhibition. Around its base are equestrian statues of seven chiefs of the conquering Magyar tribes, and within the arched colonnades to the sides stand bronze figures representing the most illustrious rulers of Hungarian History.
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