Budapest is full of impressive monuments, but some statues are famous for a completely different reason. According to local traditions, touching a particular part of them can bring luck, love, inspiration or even success in exams. If you walk around the city, you can actually see which parts people touch the most: the dark bronze becomes bright and almost golden after thousands of hands have rubbed the same spot. There is no official number of lucky statues in Budapest. Different local guides include different ones, but there are several famous examples spread between Buda and Pest. The Fat Policeman – probably the most famous one One of the easiest lucky statues to find is the Fat Policeman, standing on Zrínyi Street, only a few steps from St Stephen’s Basilica. The first thing you notice is his enormous shiny belly. It has become golden because tourists have been rubbing it for…
