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Rise Against the Soviet: The 1956 Revolution - Private Tour
$239
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Overview
The Rise Against the Soviet: The 1956 Revolution private tour highlights Hungary's struggle for freedom during a pivotal moment in history. This 3-hour experience guides you through significant sites that played crucial roles in the events of October 23, 1956.
- 🕒 Duration of 3 hours, ensuring a thorough exploration of pivotal historical sites.
- 🚗 Pickup included for your convenience, making the start of your journey hassle-free.
- 👨🏫 Knowledgeable human tour guide fluent in English will share insights and stories from the revolution.
- 🏛️ Visit Kossuth Lajos Square, the site of a tragic massacre after a mass demonstration in 1956.
- 🏢 Explore the former Party HQ known as The White House near Margaret Bridge, a key location during communist rule.
- 📜 Discover the Bem Jozsef Memorial, where 200,000 students rallied against Soviet oppression.
- 🎭 Stand before the Sandor Petofi Statue, a symbol of resistance and the site of significant political events even today.
- 📻 Check out the Hungarian National Museum, a notable location during the 1956 fighting, where revolutionaries sought global assistance.
- 🗺️ Corvin köz, the major resistance center, where local youth bravely confronted Soviet forces with makeshift weapons.
- 🎁 Receive a communism-related souvenir and handouts to remember your journey through Hungary's past.
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The experience offers several options. This price includes:
Rise Against the Soviet: The 1956 Revolution - Private Tour
City tour without any visit
Duration: 3 hours
Pickup included
City tour without any visit
Duration: 3 hours
Pickup included
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 3 hours
The experience offers several options, check yours above
- A communism-related souvenir
- Handouts
- Other drinks or food, public transportation tickets or pass
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Kossuth Lajos SquareWe will visit Kossuth Square where the Hungarian parliament stands. Aside from several other impressive buildings on the square, we will see where, following a mass demonstration in 1956, dozens were massacred by the government.
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Margaret BridgeOn the banks of the Danube, close to Margit Bridge, stands a building which in communist times was dubbed The White House. It was the Party HQ of the Hungarian communist government. We will visit this and also take a look at the statue of Imre Nagy, Prime Minister in 1956 who was later murdered.
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Bem Jozsef MemorialGoing south from Margaret Bridge, we arrive to Bem Square. The square saw 200,000 Hungarian students protesting against Soviet rule in 1956, in a rally that was originally organized to support Polish workers. We will also visit Bambi Eszpresszó, a shelter for Buda-side intellectuals in Frankel Leó utca, has been going strong since the 1960s, and has maintained both the same atmosphere and the same interior design ever since.
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Sandor Petofi StatueSándor Petöfi was the key figure in the 1948 revolution, and as such he came to represent all struggle against government. The statue is a meeting point for political events and protesters still today. The famous actor Sinkovits Imre came here to the statue in 1956 and recited the words of Petöfi which incite revolution; he was subsequently arrested and imprisoned.
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Hungarian National MuseumLocated along the tiny, one-way Sándor Bródy Street, Budapest’s Magyar Rádió Building (also known as Radio Budapest) is somewhat secluded from the city’s more bustling thoroughfares. The Radio building was one of the epicentres of fighting in 1956, and it was from here revolutionaries begged for help from the world at large.
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On the south-east part of Budapest's city, Corvin köz was the major resistance center, where in 1956 local youngsters fought the invading Russians with Molotov cocktails and guns they stole from soldiers to fight against Soviet tanks. We will look at the reminders of the battles here and talk about the invasion of 1956 and its aftermath.
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Rise Against the Soviet: The 1956 Revolution - Private Tour
$239
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
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