Országalma
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The large stone orb in the square is called the Országalma—literally the country’s apple, the Hungarian name for the globus cruciger or sovereign’s orb. It turns coronation symbolism into a piece of modern public space.
The inscriptions and heraldic references remind visitors that legitimate kingship in medieval Hungary was tied to a specific ritual geography: the right crown, the right officiant and the right place all mattered. Székesfehérvár’s modern centre uses that memory as civic branding, but behind the symbol was a serious constitutional idea. Coronation was not a decorative party. It was the ritual that made political authority recognisable and lawful.