The Rákóczi’s sculpture in Košice is a bronze

Bronze

Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive. It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, so much so that the Bronze Age was named after the metal...

 statue of Francis II Rákóczi

Francis II Rákóczi

Francis II Rákóczi Hungarian aristocrat, he was the leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburgs in 1703-11 as the prince of the Estates Confederated for Liberty of the Kingdom of Hungary. He was also Prince of Transylvania, an Imperial Prince, and a member of the Order of the Golden...

, situated in the Executioner’s Bastion in the historical centre of Košice

Košice

Košice is a city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary...

, Slovakia

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

. It is placed in front of Rákóczi’s memorial house, a replica of his house in the Turkish

Turkey

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 exile in Rodosto.

The sculpture was unveiled on April 3, 2006 in memory of the 330th anniversary of Rákóczi’s birth (March 27, 1676) and the 100th anniversary of his remains burial in Košice (remains of Francis II Rákóczi and his brothers-in-arms were buried in St. Elisabeth Cathedral

St. Elisabeth Cathedral

The St. Elisabeth Cathedral is a Gothic cathedral in Košice...

 on October 29, 1906). The sculpture was donated to the city of Košice by the Government of the Republic of Hungary.

Rákóczi’s sculpture is 230 cm (7 ft 7 in) high and weighs 500 kg

Kilogram

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 (1,100 lb

Pound (mass)

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). It is placed on a polished granite

Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...

 pedestal that weighs 8,000 kg (17,600 lb) and is 70 cm (28 in) high and 300 cm (118 in) wide.

The statue is an artwork of Hungarian sculptor Sándor Győrfi from Karcag

Karcag

Karcag is a large town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary.Karcag has its own railway station, but InterCity trains do not stop here...

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