Pan-European Picnic Memorial Park

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Pan-European Picnic Memorial Park is a commemorative site on the former Iron Curtain near the Hungary–Austria border that honors the 1989 peace demonstration and mass border crossing that helped trigger the fall of communist regimes in Eastern Europe.


Statements (30)
Predicate Object
instanceOf historical site
memorial park
tourist attraction
category Historic sites in Hungary
Memorials to the Cold War
Parks in Hungary
commemorates 1989 peace demonstration near the Hungary–Austria border
Pan-European Picnic
events contributing to the fall of communist regimes in Eastern Europe
mass border crossing from Hungary to Austria in 1989
country Hungary
dedicatedTo freedom of movement in Europe
peaceful European integration
hasFeature border fence remnants or symbolic representations
open-air setting
hasLanguage English
German
Hungarian
hasMemorial artistic installations related to the Iron Curtain
monument to the Pan-European Picnic
locatedIn Hungary
locatedNear Hungary–Austria border
locatedOn former Iron Curtain
purpose to educate visitors about the Iron Curtain and Cold War history
to honor participants of the Pan-European Picnic
relatedTo collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe
end of the Cold War
fall of the Berlin Wall
significance symbol of the dismantling of the Iron Curtain
symbol of the end of the Cold War in Europe

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Hungary–Austria border
hasMemorial

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