Szatmári Gizella: Signs of Remembrance - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2005)

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of the entire siege was mounted. The last and decisive battle was also fought in this area, around the Esztergom Bastion.

Anther monument commemorating the recapture of Buda Castle stands here, on the Round Bastion Esztergom, by the walls of the Museum of Military History, a four-meter high memorial cross set up in the spot where the liberating Christian made its first incursion into the Castle area. The empty niche underneath once held a bell.

The Homecoming of Rákóczi

The former Hotel Griff — and Hotel Pannónia prior to that — that stands at 5 Rákóczi út, District Vili, once stood next to the original National Theatre. On its first floor, above a French window, is a curious plaque with a no longer clearly visible inscription, whose details have been rendered all but unintelligible by the dust and the smog of the city. Made by sculptor János Horvay, the plaque was set in its present place in 1927 to commemorate the repatriation, in 1906, of the mortal remains of Ferenc Rákóczi 11.

The plaque was ordered by Frigyes Glück when the renowned arts patron had his hotel, a property owned by his family for almost six decades at the time, reconstructed and modernised.

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