Vast Heroes' Square (Hősök tere) at the far end of Andrássy út was built in 1896, just in time for the celebration of millennial anniversary of Magyar tribes conquering the Pannonian basin. Well according to history books the famous Árpád with his people galloped into the Pannonian basin a year or two before 896, but the square was not completed in time so the history has been conveniently adjusted.
The centre of the square is dominated by ionic pillar with a statue of archangel Gabriel on top holding St. Stephen's crown in his hands. The latter can be seen in the parliament. At the base of the pillar you can see Árpád and Magyar tribes' chieftains that arrived into the Pannonian basin together with him. Under the colonnades around the square there are statues of important Hungarian kings and heroes.
There are two Hellenistic buildings at each side of the square. The building at the western side houses Fine Arts Museum and the building at the eastern side The Palace of Art.
Behind Heroes' Square is City Park (Városliget) a green oasis popular with locals on sunny weekends' afternoons. One of the attractions of the park is Vaydahunyadvár, a castle that was first built only as a part of prefabricated scenery for millennium celebrations of 1896, and then became so popular that they decided to build a real castle at the same place. The architect Ignác Alpár was commissioned to design the castle in a way that included architectural styles of all Hungarian territories that used to be under Hungary. The southern part of the fairly tale castle is thus a copy of Romanian castle Hunedoara.
Today Vaydahunyadvár houses Agriculture Museum with large collection of gigantic steam machinery and Stalinist posters depicting muscular farmers.