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Bust of Petőfi Sándor

Bust of Petőfi Sándor
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Settlement:
Vajdahunyad, Hunedoara
Address:
Strada Gabriel Bethlen
Historical Hungarian county:
Hunyad
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
45.7484635371, 22.8903978402
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Directly next to the Calvinist church.

History

On 14 April 2002, the work of painter and sculptor Balázs Tibor from Vajdahunyad was inaugurated. The sculpture commemorates the fact that on 14 April 1849 at noon, Petőfi Sándor and General Bem József's Hungarian army stopped at Vajdahunyad for a few hours to visit the castle with the general staff. It was then that Petőfi wrote his poem "At Vajdahunyad".

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