Petőfi Bridge [SEP] named after
Petőfi Bridge
Petőfi híd or Petőfi Bridge (named after Sándor Petőfi, old name is "Horthy Miklós Bridge", named after governor Miklós Horthy) is a bridge in Budapest, connecting Pest and Buda across the Danube. It is the second southernmost public bridge in Budapest.
Its two ends are
- Boráros tér (southern end of Grand Boulevard and terminus of the Csepel HÉV)
- Goldmann György tér (next to the campuses of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
Budapest already made a proposal
of Slovak poet Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav. Today, there is a statue of Petőfi in the Medic Garden (Medická záhrada).
During the late 1940s, Boris Pasternak produced acclaimed translations of Petőfi's poems into the Russian language.
Today, schools, streets and squares are named after him throughout Hungary and Hungarian-speaking regions of neighbouring states; in Budapest alone, there are 11 Petőfi streets and 4 Petőfi squares, see: Public place names of Budapest. A national radio station (Radio Petőfi), a bridge