


St. Maria Monument
Situated in St. Maria’s Square, it was inaugurated in 1906.
The sculptor was György Kiss.
The architect was László Syékely.
The monument denotes a chaste visual expression, in the 1900s style, szeceszió eclectic with Neo-Romanic and Gothic elements.
A legend says that the monument was erected on the spot where Gheorghe Doja (Dózsa), leader of the peasant war defeated in
Another legend says that the execution took place near the castle, and the leaders of the nobility, Zápolya and Báthory, watched the sinister spectacle from one of the castle’s windows. Therefore the execution could not have taken place at the site of today’s square, which is located too far from the castle.
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