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Bust of Orbán Balázs

Bust of Orbán Balázs
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Address:
Virág negyedi park
Historical Hungarian county:
Csík
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.7227696024, 25.5943971642
Google map:

History

Orbán Balázs (1829-1890) was a world-famous geographical and ethnographic writer and photographer. One of his best-known works is the six-volume Description of Székelyland from a Historical, Archaeological, Natural and Ethnographic Point of View (1868-73).

The bust is the work of Varga Gábor, a sculptor from Dombóvár, who also created the relief of the Hungarian coat of arms that was reinstalled on the facade of the Salamon Ernő High School.

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