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After the flooding the old marketplace was replaced by the wide Széchenyi tér edged with plane trees. Statues of the
nation's heroes and important citizens of the town line the paths of the park-like square. To the south of the
square a monument commemorates the great reformist István Széchenyi. The allegorical figures around the pond in the
middle of the square symbolize both the life-giving and destructive properties of the River Tisza.
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