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Fisherman's Bastion is a Neo-Romanesque terrace on Castle Hill, built between 1895 and 1902 by Frigyes Schulek on a stretch of the old Buda castle walls beside Matthias Church. Its white stone walkways run about 140 metres along the Danube side, with seven conical towers for the seven Magyar chieftains, and look out over the river to Pest and the Parliament.
The Shoes on the Danube Bank is a Holocaust memorial on the Pest embankment south of the Parliament, created in 2005 by Can Togay and sculptor Gyula Pauer. Sixty pairs of iron shoes stand at the water's edge in memory of the Jews shot into the Danube by Arrow Cross militiamen in 1944 and 1945.
Heroes' Square is the large square at the end of Andrássy Avenue, laid out for the 1896 millennium of the Hungarian conquest. Its Millennium Monument has a 36-metre column topped by the Archangel Gabriel, the seven Magyar chieftains at its base and two colonnades of statues of Hungarian rulers; the Museum of Fine Arts and the Műcsarnok flank it.
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