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Coordinates:47°30′34.96″N19°4′12.12″E / 47.5097111°N 19.0700333°E /47.5097111; 19.0700333

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Urban square in Budapest, Hungary

For the metro station, seeKodály körönd (Budapest Metro).

Kodály körönd is acircus inBudapest,Hungary,^[1] at the intersection ofAndrássy Avenue and Felsőerdősor u., with beautifully painted old buildings and statues of four of Hungary's great heroes in each corner. It is alsoa station on the yellowM1 (Millennium Underground) line of theBudapest Metro. The four heroes are:

György Szondy (1500–1552) - Hero against the Ottoman invasion who, on July 9, 1552, with his troops, stood his ground against Ali Pasha when those in neighboring castles fled.
Miklós Zrínyi (1508–1566) - Defender of theKingdom of Hungary against the Ottomans.
Bálint Balassi (1554–1594) - Celebrated poet during the same war against the Ottomans, giving voice to love and honor.
János Bottyán (1643–1709) – "Blind Bottyán" – popular name of Bottyán János, who fought against the Ottomans under theHabsburgs, liberatingBuda, but who later became a general in the war of independence against theHabsburgs underFrancis II Rákóczi, 1705. He is "blind" because he lost an eye while fighting the Ottomans.

The four buildings on the square form a full circle, with Andrássy út and Szinyei Merse utca intersecting in the middle. There are no turns at the intersection, but one can use a surrounding rotary instead, and the heroes are in each pie-quarter cut out by the intersection and the rotary.

The circus was namedKörönd (circus) from the 1890s,Hitler Adolf tér (Adolf Hitler square) from 1938, renamedKörönd in 1945, then, in 1971, named afterZoltán Kodály who once lived in one of the buildings there.Körönd and its renaming in the 1930s play a central role inVilmos Kondor's 2012 novelBudapest Noir.