Zero Kilometre Stone (Budapest)
- Zero Kilometre Stone (Budapest)
Zero Kilometre Stone is a 3 m high limestone sculpture in Budapest, forming a zero sign, and an inscription on its pedestal reading "KM" for kilometres. This statue denotes the place from which all the highways in Hungary are measured. The starting point was initially reckoned from the threshold of the Buda Royal Palace, but it was taken down to the Széchenyi Chain Bridge when it was built in 1849.
The present sculpture was sculpted by Miklós Borsos and erected in 1975. The first official monument was set up at this place in 1932, but it was destroyed in World War II. The second sculpture, a worker, was erected in 1953 and removed when the new monument took its place.
Location
It is located in a small park at Clark Ádám tér (Adam Clark square), at the Buda abutment of Chain Bridge, below Buda Castle.
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ee also
* Zero Milestone (Washington D.C. monument)
* Kilometre Zero
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