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Attractions along the Carpathians
Upper Hungary / Slovakia

England Park

Anglický park
England Park
Anglický park
Original function:
park
Current function:
park
Historical Hungarian county:
Komárom
Country:
Slovakia
GPS coordinates:
47.756597, 18.132238
Google map:

History

When the town still belonged to Hungary, there stood a bandstand in the park, in which military bands played. One of their conductor was Lehár Ferenc Sr., the father of the famous Hungarian operetta composer. The copy the bandstand can now be seen in the Courtyard of Europe.

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