Faurest, Kristin: Ten spaces - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2010)

Mechwart liget

a well-defined neighbourhood, it stands in a crossroads of sorts — between the Boulevard and the hills of Rózsadomb, and its de facto role is far more to compensate for the immediate neighbourhood’s shortcomings (busy traffic arteries, inconsistent building styles, lack of quality reconstruction of historic architecture) than to harmonize with it. The immediate area around the square is full of interesting and worthy monuments, but one has to seek them out - they don’t automatically catch the eye and draw one in like, say, the market hall at Hunyadi or Klauzál, and they aren't connected to one another in any meaningful way.

The square's relationship to its environs may change significantly in the near future; district plans, with support from the EU’s Regional Development Fund, call for renewing most of the park and significantly reducing traffic on or pedestrianizing altogether several of the adjoining streets, including Keleti Károly utca, Lövőház utca, Káplár utca and Fény utca. This would, hopefully, make the park less of just a relief from surrounding chaos and more of a coherent part of a whole.

One monument within a moment's walk from the square and definitely worth looking at is one of the most significant Baroque monuments in the area, the church to St. Augustine on Margit körút, just steps away from

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