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also interesting to note that
Pecz used this traditional
design of medieval Catholic
churches for a Calvinist
church, which has very
different liturgical and
ecclesiastical needs.

4 St Anne’s Church
See pp106–7.

The imposing entrance to the Tunnel on Clark Ádám tér 5 Batthyány Square
Batthyány Tér
1 Tunnel the doorway on the south ern Map 1 C3 (9 B1). £ H5. @ 11. v 19.
Alagút façade, have remained. Between q Batthyány tér.
1703–15 the church was
Clark Ádám tér. Map 1 C5 (9 B3). rebuilt, follow ing a Baroque Batthyány Square is one of
@ 16, 105, 116.
design created by one of the the most interesting squares
The Scottish engineer Adam Capuchin Fathers. on the Danube’s west ern bank.
Clark settled in Hungary after In 1856 the church was again Beautiful views of Parliament
completing the Chain Bridge restyled, by Ferenc Reitter and Pest on the op posite
(see p66). One of his later pro jects, and Pál Zsumrák, who linked bank unfold from here.
in 1853–7, was building the the differently styled façades In 1905, the square was
Tunnel that runs right through har moniously together. renamed after Count Lajos
Castle Hill, from Clark Ádám tér The statue of St Elizabeth on Batthyány, the prime minister
to Krisztin aváros. The Tunnel is the mid-19th-century Romantic during the Hungarian uprising
350 m (1,150 ft) long, 9 m (30 ft) façade also dates from 1856. of 1848–9 (see pp32–3), who was
wide and 11 m (36 ft) in height. shot by the Austrian army.
The entrance on Clark Ádám The square features
tér is flanked by two pairs of buildings in many different
Doric columns. This square is styles. The Hikisch House, at
the city’s official centre because No. 3, dating from the late
of the location here of the 18th century, is late Baroque.
Zero Kilometre Stone, from It is notable for the bas-reliefs
which all distances from on its façade depicting the
Budapest are calculated. four seasons. The White Cross
The Tunnel’s western entrance Inn, at No. 4, also late Baroque,
was originally orna mented features Rococo decoration.
with Egyptian motifs. However, On the western side of the
it was rebuilt with out these square is the first covered
details after it was damaged market in Buda, dating from
in World War II. 1902. Though damaged
in World War II, it is now
The altar of the Capuchin Church fully restored.
2 Capuchin Church
Kapucinus Templom
3 Calvinist Church
Fő utca 32. Map 1 C4 (9 B2). Tel (06 1)
201 47 25. 8 by arrangement. Református Templom
Szilágyi Dezső tér 3. Map 1 C4 (9 B2).
The origins of this church date Tel (06 1) 457 01 09.
from the 14th century, when
the mother of Louis I, Queen One of Budapest’s more
Elizabeth, decided to establish unusual churches, the Calvinist
a church here. Frag ments of Church was built by Samu
walls on the northern façade Pecz between 1893–6 on the
survive from this time. site of a former medieval
During the Turkish occupa tion mar ket. It is one of the major
(see pp28–9), the church was ex amples of his work.
converted into a mosque. Despite the use of modern
Features from this period, such tiles on the roof, the church The Hikisch House, with bas-reliefs
as the window openings and is Neo-Gothic in style. It is representing the four seasons

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