Horváth M. Ferenc (szerk.): Vác The heart of the Danube Bend. A historical guide for residents and globetrotters (Vác, 2009)
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206 SIGHTSEEING Father Anselm, made illustrated information boards to guide visitors. The monastery housed the Kapisztrán Press for decades, then the famous bindery of György Váci, and between 1978-2004, the Vác Department of the Pest County Archives. Today the building is nearly empty and it not open to the public. Near the church the "Castle Stairs" lead to the embankment. The gatepost of the house at the top of the stairs is decorated with a small basrelief of an ox, which indicates that the house could have belonged to a butcher. The high stone and brick wall along the flight of stairs was not part of the fortification of the castle. It was A small stone ox-relief on the house of a sometime butcher Outside the church, next to the entrance door there is a stone cross commemorating the plague epidemic of 1740. While nursing the sick, two devoted Franciscan friars contracted the disease and died here. They were buried in the square outside the church at the foot of the stone cross. The cross had been erected in the previous year and became their tombstone. Later the cross was removed because of some construction work. The replica of the Pieta in Sasvár is now in front of the church; it was a gift from members of the congregation. Várlépcső ("Castle stairs") Street built by the Franciscans in the 18th century as a flood defence. Leaving the square we reach the embankment through the sloping Tímár Street as well, which could have been the line of the moat. The statue on the corner was made by Imre Varga; it is called Woman and Girl. Walking towards the town centre along the quiet Galamb Street, parallel with the Main Road, we can see the last continuous section of the former stone pavement of the town. Pieta-statue in front of the church (around 1770) St Francis of Assisi Snapshots from the life of the former Kapisztrán Press
