On today’s Around the World with Gummibär adventure, we stop in one more place in Hungary before our new adventure for the week begins tomorrow. Here I am at the Danube River in Hungary, at “The Shoes on the Danube Promenade” memorial!
On the banks of the Danube River in Budapest, not far from the Hungarian Parliament building, sit sixty pairs of old-fashioned shoes, the type people wore in the 1940s. There are women’s shoes, there are men’s shoes and there are children’s shoes. They sit at the edge of the water, scattered and abandoned, as though their owners had just stepped out of them and left them there. Known as “The Shoes on the Danube Promenade”, the memorial was conceptualized by film director Can Togay, and was created by Togay together with the sculptor Gyula Pauer. It was installed on the Pest bank of the Danube River in Budapest in 2005. Click here to read more!
Enjoy all of the new language versions of “The Gummy Bear Song” in HD so far before the NEW one tomorrow!
