Scores of institutions and streets bear the name of Zoltán Kodály already, we still think it is important that the first green surface of the OPERA and its biggest unified part of it suitable for events, the almost one-hectare park is named after him, too.
Kodály also loved nature, and this complex, rather modern approach is apparent through his works and habit of hiking. We will never forget that he wrote every one of his stage works for the Opera House, or that his life was connected to the railway as well: he is perhaps the only composer in the world who was born at a train station – in Kecskemét. And talking about the actual railway: the Kodály Park has several curiosities, including a garden pond originally built by the railway people, fake ruins typical of socialist romanticism, and the most impressive among them, a recovered 301.006 steam engine and its tender – the former was a Hungarian production from the nearby Ganz factory, it was the fastest locomotive of its time, and this copy also contains a part of the first sister “series” of the series, the 301.001 that tragically crashed near Biatorbágy...
