The 2.5-tonne granite statue was erected in the park next to the V4 flags.

The Polish entrepreneur Henryk Papis decided to commission a public artwork, which he would then donate to the town of Visegrád, intended to symbolise the cooperation between the V4 countries and to further emphasise the importance of this collaboration in the present day.

Papis wished to emphasise the importance of close ties between nations by having the globe erected on the very spot where King Charles I had organised his famous meeting of monarchs in 1335. However, the globe directly commemorates the first V4 meeting held 35 years ago, when the then leaders of our countries signed their cooperation agreement at the Royal Palace.

The statue therefore stands there beside the flags, as yet another memento, in the square just a minute’s walk from the King Matthias Museum of the Hungarian National Museum, which houses the Royal Palace, whose state room hosted the meeting in 1991 between Václav Havel, Lech Wałęsa and József Antall in 1991.

Visegrád and Surroundings Tourism and Marketing Association
2026.06.10.