With this symbolic story, we reopen the Borivók Magazine, which has been resting for a while.
It is fitting that our restart begins here, in the very heart of the country — at the Zero Kilometre Stone on Clark Ádám Square, the point from which all Hungarian roads are measured.

This curious limestone monument may look modest, yet it marks a place where the past and present of Budapest meet in a single spot.
Here stands one of the city’s oldest bridges — the Chain Bridge — and behind it rises Castle Hill, the cradle of Hungarian statehood.
From this point, the capital stretches outward like the branches of a great tree: toward the Danube Bend, the Great Plain, the Transdanubian hills.

The Zero Kilometre Stone was created in 1975 by sculptor Miklós Borsos.
Its round, organic shape has often been compared to a human form — some say it resembles a seated figure, others see a heart or a seed.
Perhaps all interpretations are true: it stands for both origin and movement, the beginning of every road and the spirit of return.

It reminds us that every journey — whether on foot, by train, or through time — begins somewhere.
And that every traveller, sooner or later, finds the way back to this point again.

Here, at the meeting of the Chain Bridge, Tunnel, and Castle Hill, we stand where “all roads begin, and where every wanderer returns.”