Freedom Square - one of the largest areas of the Hungarian capital near lipótváros on the left bank of the Danube to the southeast of the Hungarian Parliament. Before 1886 the area was overloaded lipótváros army barracks, part of which was used as prison facilities. It is here that kept the participants of the Hungarian uprising in 1848. In memory of those tragic events in 1926 at the corner of Bathory and Hold lit an eternal flame.

  After the demolition of the complex of barracks in 1886 formed the area, stretched from north to south, along the perimeter of which is lined architecturally noteworthy buildings osobonyakov. In 1901, the area of ​​the building decorated with Art Nouveau facade now houses the US embassy. In 1905, after the reconstruction of the area on the opposite side of it appeared Stock Exchange building (today it houses the radio and television company) and the National Bank, built by the famous Hungarian architect and sculptor Ignaz par.

  The central part of the square is a square with a fountain, there is a monument to the Soviet Army soldiers who fell during the liberation of Budapest from the Nazis.