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f Central Market
Hall
Központi Vásárcsarnok
Vámház körút 1-3. Map 4 F3. Tel (06 1)
366 33 00. v 2, 47, 49. q Fővám tér.
Open 6am–5pm Mon, 6am–6pm
Tue–Fri, 6am–3pm Sat. Closed Sun.
Rebuilt in 1999, Budapest’s main
produce market is a great place
to find local delicacies such as
spicy kolbász salami and sheep’s
cheese. There are numerous
farmers’ stalls selling meat,
sausage, fruit, vegetables and Sausages for sale at the Central Market Hall
fish. The upper floor has a dozen
or so food booths and souvenir features cast-iron Neo-Gothic section by a partition, and the
stalls selling paprika, caviar, motifs. The Great Debating Hall division is further emphasized
Hungarian dolls, T-shirts and is decorated with mosa ics by the floor, which has been
chessboards. The basement designed by Károly Lotz. lowered by 30 cm (1 ft). The
level has a small grocery store Many antiquarian bookshops choir gallery is enclosed by an
selling imported delicacies. and galleries can be found iconostasis that divides it from
around here. Fashion able bars, the sanctuary. This iconostasis
restaurants and cafés, and dates from around 1850. The
pedestrian ization of the streets, carving is by Serb sculptor
make this a charming area. Miahai Janic; Renaissance-
influenced paint ings are by
Greek artist Károly Sterio.
h Serbian Church
Szerb Templom j Loránd Eötvös
Szerb utca 2–4. Map 4 F2 (10 E5).
q Kálvin tér, Ferenciek tere. University
Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun. Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
Egyetem tér 1–3. Map 4 F2 (10 E5).
Serbs settled in the now large ly q Ferenciek tere, Kálvin tér.
residential area around the Tel (06 1) 411 65 00. ∑ elte.hu
church as early as the 16th
century. The end of the 17th In 1635, Cardinal Péter Pázmány,
century brought a new wave the leader of the Counter-
of Serb immigrants, and by the Reformation, establish ed a
early 19th century Serbs com- university in Nagyszombat (now
prised almost 25 per cent of Trnava in Slovakia). It moved to
Decorative element on the façade of the Pest’s home-owners. Buda in 1777, nearly a century
City Council Chamber In 1698, the Serb commun ity af ter the end of the Turkish
replaced an earlier church on occupation (see pp28–9), during
g City Council the site with this Baroque the reign of Maria Theresa.
Chamber one. The church Emperor Joseph II
Új Városháza gained its final trans ferred the
appearance after a university to Pest,
Váci utca 62–64. Map 4 F2 (10 E5).
q Deák tér. Tel (06 1) 235 17 00. rebuilding project to the environs of
Open 8am–noon Fri. 8 compulsory that lasted until the the Pauline Church,
mid-18th century, now called the
This three-floor edifice was probably undertaken University Church.
built between 1870–75 as by András It was not until
offices for the newly unified Meyerhoffer. 1889 that the
city of Budapest (see p34). Its The interior university was
architect, Imre Steindl, was also of the church endowed with
responsible for designing is arranged Ceramic tile from the a permanent
Parliament (see pp112–13). acc ording to Greek Serbian Church home. This Neo-
The building is a mix of Orthodox practice. Baroque building,
styles. The exterior is a Neo- A section of the nave, which now the Law Faculty, was
Renaissance design in brick, is entered from the vestibule, designed by architects
with grotesques between the is reserved for women. This including Sándor Baumgarten
windows, while the interior area is divided from the men’s and Fülöp Herzog.

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