Móricz Zsigmond körtér ("''

Zsigmond Móricz Zsigmond Móricz (; 29 June 1879, Tiszacsécse – 4 September 1942) was a major Hungarian novelist and Social Realist. Biography Zsigmond Móricz was born in Tiszacsécse in 1879 to Bálint Móricz and Erzsébet Pallagi. On his mother's ...

circus''") is a square in

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

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. Located in

Újbuda Újbuda (lit. ''New Buda'') is the 11th district of Budapest ( hu, Budapest XI. kerület), Hungary. It is the most populous district of Budapest with 137,426 inhabitants (2008). Until the 1890s, Újbuda's present territory was a field south of th ...

, or Budapest's 11th District at the convergence of some of Budapest's major

boulevard A boulevard is a type of broad avenue planted with rows of trees, or in parts of North America, any urban highway. Boulevards were originally circumferential roads following the line of former city walls. In American usage, boulevards may ...

s '' Béla Bartók út, Villányi út, Fehérvári út,'' and ''Karinthy Frigyes út,'' the square in close proximity to the

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. From 1929, the square was initially named after

Miklós Horthy Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya ( hu, Vitéz nagybányai Horthy Miklós; ; English: Nicholas Horthy; german: Nikolaus Horthy Ritter von Nagybánya; 18 June 1868 – 9 February 1957), was a Hungarian admiral and dictator who served as the regent ...

, but was renamed after famous Hungarian writer

in 1945. It remains a prominent location within the city, and was a scene of fierce fighting in the

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. The main feature of the intersection is the ''Gomba'', or Mushroom. This building, constructed in 1942 in the middle of the roundabout, featured shops as well as the electrical

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distributing current to the significant tramway network. As it was in poor condition, the mushroom was earmarked for redevelopment in line with Budapest's cultural district and construction of the M4 metro.Project - Móricz Zsigmond Sq. „Mushroom“ building - Architizier
/ref> The building was fully renovated by the summer of 2014. Budapest's new M4 metro has a stop at the square, as well as the 7, 27, 33, 58, 114, 213, 214, and 240 bus lines and the 6, 17, 19, 41, 47, 48, 49, 56, 56A, and 61 tram lines, the 6 tram line being the busiest tram service in Budapest (along with 4). The shopping mall ''Allee'' (toward Újbuda-központ metro station) and the square ''Kosztolányi Dezső tér'' along with its park around ''Feneketlen-tó'' ("Bottomless Lake") are available at a walking distance.

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Squares in Budapest {{Budapest-geo-stub

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