HUNGARY | Budapest, Hungary Travel Guide
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Destinations Menu
Statue of St. Gellért
Gellért Hegy (Gellert Hill)
Budapest
Budapest
Hungary
Type: Historical Interest
Addmission Fee: Free
Comments ( 0 )
Rating (0 Votes)
Budapest
Budapest
Hungary
Type: Historical Interest
Addmission Fee: Free
Comments ( 0 )
Rating (0 Votes)
The huge statue of St. Gellért, defiantly raising a cross, is perched atop Gellért Hegy, reached by a flight of stairs from the foot of the hill. The statue was made by the sculptor Gyula Jankovics in 1904, and reputedly stands at the very spot where St.Gellert, then an Italian missionary, was stuffed in a spiked barrel by pagans and rolled down the hill to plunge into the Danube in 1046.
Just to the right of the stairs is a monumental retaining wall made of huge granite blocks, laced at the top with stone handrails and balustrades from the turn of the century. It forms a heavy stone border that reaches around the hill going up the Hegyalja út.
A large chiseled stone plaque reads in giant letters that the wall was built in 1902, in the final days of the Hapsburgs. Below St. Gellért’s statue, an artificial waterfall, Ferenc Medgyessy’s creation, called St. Gerard’s (Gellért’s) Fountain, refreshes the walking trail.
RSS
Explore the Destination
Amenities and Resources
Overview
Hotels(22)
Restaurants(40)
Attractions(56)
Activities(36)
Nightlife(18)
Spas(20)
Map 
Top Picks
Visitor Information
Weather Forecast
- Reported on:
Sat, 05/04/2024 - 23:00
- Reported on:
Trending Themes:
Guides to Popular Ski Resorts
-
Ischgl is a small mountain village turned hip ski resort, with massive appeal among the party-hearty young crowds. It is... Read More
-
Andorra la Vella is its own little world, and not just because it’s a 290-square-mile independent principality (a fifth the... Read More
-
Bariloche (officially San Carlos de Bariloche) is the place to be seen. It is to Argentina what Aspen is to the... Read More
-
Aspen is America's most famous ski resort. And that's an understatement. For, as a ski complex, Aspen is unsurpassed. Its... Read More
-
Zermatt is a small but glamorous mountain resort town, with a population of approximately 5,700. It is one of Switzerland's... Read More
-
St. Moritz is a glitzy, alpine resort town in the celebrated Engadin Valley of Switzerland, with huge notoriety as the... Read More
-
Lake Tahoe is the premier lake resort of America, and the largest alpine lake in all of North America. It is an absolutely... Read More
-
St. Anton, Sankt Anton am Arlberg in German, is Austria's premier ski-bum resort! It's actually a small village cum... Read More
-
Kitzbühel, a small, Tyrolian resort town in the Kitzbüheler Alps, comes with international renown and huge snob appeal, and... Read More
