Kossuth Lajos Square

Kossuth Lajos Square is dominated by the Hungarian Parliament Building, an immense neo-Gothic structure that rises above the east bank of the Danube. Before this site became the symbolic center of Hungarian political life, it was a low-lying area used as a landfill for river debris. Over the nineteenth century, the ground was raised, and the square took its current shape as a grand public space. Today, the plaza is marked by expansive open views and several bronze monuments, including a large memorial to Lajos Kossuth, the leader of the eighteen forty-eight Hungarian Revolution.