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15th-century Gothic build ing. galleries. The altars, pulpit and
The work was started by György baptistries also date back to
Száraz and completed by his the mid-18th century.
son-in-law, József Rudnyánszky,
acquiring its final shape in 1766.
Based on the typical Baroque h Buda Hills
layout, it includes a main block Budai-hegység
and side wings. The coping q Széll Kálmán tér, then v 56,
features the Száraz and then cog-wheel railway (tram 60) and
Rudnyánszky family crests. chair lift.
The palace suffered severe
damage during World War II, To the west of the city centre
but the original wall paintings are the wooded Buda Hills
and furnishings survived. In where Budapesters come to
1949, the palace was rebuilt walk and relax.
and turned into an interior The first station of a cog-wheel
The marble Törley Mausoleum design museum. Now it is a railway, built in 1874, is on Szilágyi
department of the Museum Erzsébet fasor. This runs up Sváb
f Törley of Applied Arts (see pp140–41). Hill – named after the Germanic
Mausoleum On display are fine pieces of Swabians, who settled here under
Törley Mauzóleum Hungarian and European the Habsburgs (see p30) – and
furniture from the 15th–18th then Széchenyi Hill.
Sarló utca 6. @ 33. v 47. centuries, early 19th-century From Széchenyi Hill a narrow-
paintings and more functional gauge railway covers a 12-km
Until 1880 Budafok had a items, such as tiled stoves. (7-mile) route to the Hűvös
number of vineyards, but their Standing close to the palace Valley. As in the days of the
cultivation was destroyed in is an 18th-century Baroque Soviet Young Pioneers movement,
that year by a plague of church, built on the remains the railway is en tirely staffed by
phylloxera (American aphid). of a medieval church. Original children, apart from the adult
It was then that József Törley, Gothic features include the train drivers. At the top of János
who had studied wine-making window open ings in its tower Hill stands the Erzsébet Look-Out
in Reims, started to produce and three supports on the outer Tower, designed by Frigyes Schulek
sparkling wine in Budafok using wall of the presbytery. In 1760, in 1910. A chair lift also connects
the French model (see p194). the Austrian artist Johann the summit of János Hill with
His wines sold well abroad Gfall created the painting in the Zugligeti út and is a good way
and he quickly expand ed his dome which features illusory of making the descent.
enterprise, storing the wines
in the local cellars.
József Törley died in 1900
and was laid to rest in this
monumental mausoleum,
constructed in white marble
and designed by Rezső Vilmos
Ray. The Törley Mausoleum is
not open to the public.

g Nagytétényi
Palace Museum
Nagytétényi Kastély Múzeum
Kastélypark utca 9–11. Tel (06 1) 207
00 05. £ from Déli to Kastélypark.
@ 33. Open Mar–Dec: 10am–
6pm Tue–Sun; Jan–Feb: 10am–6pm
Sat & Sun; may close for renovations
so phone or check website before
visit. & 8 In period costume, by
arrangement. ∑ nagytetenyi.hu

This is one of the best known
Baroque palaces in Hungary. It
was built in the mid-18th century,
incorporating the remains of a The Erzsébet Look-Out Tower at the summit of János Hill

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