The Hetés Friendship Park

The area around the border opens limitless perspectives and enables the birth of friendships without limits. In the area of the Slovene-Hungarian green border, more accurately between Žitkovci and Bödeháza, the Friendship Park Hetés was opened in a ceremonial event in 2004. The area used to be borderland but has changed its purpose and has become a popular destination for day trippers and the site of different events. The park represents the coexistence and solidarity between two settlements. In the area, the statue of the Borderless Bird was erected which is the work of the artists Anita Balog and László Árvay. The bird as a symbol of freedom was made from the remnants of the barbed wire of the ‘Iron Curtain’ that divided the two villages and were found in that spot.