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Little
Boulevard
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.
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
This is one of the largest synagogues in Europe.
The two onion-shaped domes are 43 meters high.
Above the main entrance the Hebrew line reads:
"Make me a sanctuary and I will dwell among
them".
The building which has three naves and a flat
ceiling holds almost 3,000 worshippers: 1497
men on the ground floor and 1472 women in the
gallery.
The nave in the middle was built with a 12 meter
cast iron piece spanning the distance.
Ferenc Liszt and Saint-Saëns played the
famous organ on several occasions.
The synagogue was originally built in an enclosed
area.
The Holocaust Memorial in the back garden is
directly over the mass graves dug during the
1944-45 Hungarian Fascist period.
On every leaf there is the name of a martyr.
In 1944, after the Nazi occupation of Hungary
Budapest Jews were forced to move into a ghetto
(they had never lived in one before) as a preparation
to deportation.
That finally - miraculously - didn't happen.
But many died because of ill health, starvation
and random murders.
The pre-war percentage of 5% dwindled to 0.5%
after the war; practically all of them live
in Budapest.
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