Lajos Batthyány Batthyány eternal flame

186824_20211002_154704_1_.jpg The eternal flame has been burning for ninety-five years at the execution site of Lajos Batthyány As early as the 1870s, it was decided that a memorial would be erected to Lajos Batthyány, who was executed in 1849, but while other statesmen received a statue, the martyrdom of the Prime Minister was commemorated with an eternal flame. The monument was built in 1926, and the inauguration of the eternal flame, which still stands today, took place on the day of the execution, on 6 October, with the participation of Governor Miklós Horthy and several public dignitaries.

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