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Budapest’s City Park will be family-friendly with seven new playgrounds
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The project to transform Budapest’s City Park (Liget) into “a cultural and recreational space unmatched in the whole of Europe” is proceeding apace, László Baán, the government commissioner for the project, said in interviews to MTI and the daily Magyar Nemzet.
The park occupying more than 13,000sqft features around 50 playground installations, including a three-level climbing feature inspired by Paul Szinyei Merse’s painting Airship, all opening towards the end of the month. The playground, Hungary’s most complex and state-of-the-art, comes on the heels of the inauguration of the renovated Millennium House (formerly Olaf Palme House), he told MTI.
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Baán emphasised that the City Park would be family-friendly, with a total of seven new playgrounds.
The state’s investment in Liget Budapest, the large-scale project that will also transform the Liget into a museums quarter, could be recouped in 15 years,
Baán told Wednesday’s Magyar Nemzet.
“From 2023, after the renovation of the City Park is completed in a manner befitting the 21st century, the country will have a new cultural attraction of such a scale that state monies spent on the project are expected to be recouped within 15 years through the extra revenue from tourism it generates,” Baan said.