Horváth M. Ferenc (szerk.): Vác The heart of the Danube Bend. A historical guide for residents and globetrotters (Vác, 2009)
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The Holy Trinity Square, former fish- and poultrymarket at the beginning of the 20th century the voluntary fire brigade association and the big beer house of the bishopric estate were also here. Another impressive corner building in the square was built for the police at the end of the 1920s. The new building replaced that of the former Dercsényi Press; today it is uninhabited. The open-air bath and swimming pool were developed on the slope leading to the Danube. Behind the Piarist Church and Monastery is Kossuth Square with the painted cast metal statue The seal of the Firemen's Association of Vác The statue of Vác Hermit by Sándor Kapás the"square of the social gathering of the intelligentsia". In the place of the present Secondary Music School there was an inn called Csillag (Star) where transit passengers often stayed for the night. The writer Kálmán Mikszáth travelling to and from his birthplace regularly stayed here. He immortalized some of his experiences in Vác in his writings too. The lounge of the Emericana Movement - an association of Catholic university students - housed lectures and other programmes. The cafes - Hornung, Art Gallery, National - were flourishing on the opposite side of the square. One of the old buildings of the street used to be the headquarters of the As-The one-time Great Beer House The open-air bath of the town of the Blessed Vác Hermit. It was made in the 1930s by Sándor Kapás, who moulded certain elements from medieval legends.The square was named after a politician of the Reform Age, Lajos Kossuth, whose stone statue made by Ferenc Gyurcsek was placed here recently. The square used to be an important scene of local social life with a restaurant and cafés; it was Lajos Kossuth's statue The former Reitter Cart Factory, today an exhibition place of the museum sociation of the Young Tradesmen of Vác, while the smaller one next door was the chapter's small beer house, the former Town Hall of Chapter's Vác. The building with a tympanum in Káptalan Street used to belong to the Imperial and royal" Reitter Cart Factory. Today it is an exhibition hall displaying the history of the town. GYÁRTELEP VÁCZ. TSLEPON 1 -*V.
