This road
is called "Little Boulevard" where
the City Walls of Pest stood in the middle Ages;
these walls were demolished 200 years ago.
Central Market Hall - Központi
Vásárcsarnok
At the end of the last century the city had
five large, roofed markets all of which were
built in a very similar stile.
All five were opened on the same day; the other
four are in Rákóczi tér,
Klauzál tér, Hunyadi tér
and in what today is called Rosenberg házaspár
utca.
This is the largest of them (designed by Samu
Pecz), along the sides of the 150 meter-long
hall are six aisles. The structure, the lighting
and the cold store were very modern in their
time and work even today.
The greatest attraction of the hall is the roof
structure.
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Kálvin tér and the Eastern
City Gate
This square was the site of one of the medieval
gates of the city until it was pulled down in
1796.
During the war as many as five buildings suffered
irreversible damage; luckily the two most valuable
buildings, the Calvinist church and the old
Two Lions Inn, open until 1881 survived.
The silhouette of the city gate is hidden by
the much-debated new hotel - Hotel Crown (Korona). |
National Museum
The largest museum in the country, built between
1837 and 1846, to the plans of Mihály
Pollack.
At that time this was so far from town that
the weekly fair was held in Kálvin tér
and some cattle sometimes wandered into the
museum.
It is almost 8,000 square meters in area, and
it has five independent departments: the Archaeological
Collection, the Medieval Collection, the Modern
Collection, the Numismatics Collection and
the Historical Portrait Collection.
The museum played an important role on the first
day of the 1848 Revolution; on 15th March a
huge crowd of demonstrators gathered here to
listen to the speeches of "the Youth of
March", their leaders.
The speakers were standing on the wall left
from the stairs while the crowd listened to
them, clutching their umbrellas. |
The Great Synagogue