Horváth M. Ferenc (szerk.): Vác The heart of the Danube Bend. A historical guide for residents and globetrotters (Vác, 2009)
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RESETTLEMENT AND THE AGE OF THE GREAT CONSTRUCTIONS - THE 18TH CENTURY 125 park their carts in the northern part of the square. Stalls selling roast meat and sausages, crops, fruits, vegetables, wood or bread, along with haberdashers and linen-drapers were all regular participants of the weekly markets. For some decades before the building of the new cathedral and the bishop's palace the Main Square had been the secular and ecclesiastic centre of the town. However, as with other episcopal today's Konstantin Square was chosen as the site for the construction. Work was started by Frigyes and Károly Althann, followed by Károly Eszterházy and finished by Kristóf Migazzi. The area was partly occupied by the ecclesiastic buildings dating back to the Middle Ages, and some modest houses built at the beginning of the 18th century. Large-scale constructions were first started here by the Piarists, who had settled in Vác in 1714 and gradually expanded Öávösloi Rácsról........ The Seminary at the end of the 19th century The Piarist Grammar School at the end of the 19th century seats, a new ecclesiastic centre was built in order to demonstrate the power of the Church. Both the spot of the former cathedral, that is the area of the ruinous castle quite separate from the town, and the relatively small Main Square were inadequate for the new cathedral, which was to indicate the autocracy, the power and the wealth of the Roman Catholic Church by its size and the space around. That is why the house granted to them by Grand Provost András Berkes. After the expropriation of the single-storey houses, vegetable gardens and orchards in Konstantin Square and the draining of the extremely damp marshy soil the construction of the cathedral and the bishop's palace across the square was started. In the following century the library and the archives Draft of the facade of the Seminary
