Szablyár Péter: Step by step - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2010)

The man for whom a stairway was named - Móric Sándor the Devil Rider

■ The covered School Stain

roofed stairs on the western slope of Castle Hill lead from Lovas út up to Tóth Árpád sétány. When arriving at the top, one cannot help being overawed by the spectacle of the Church of Our Lady looming up all of a sudden and then, as one turns around to look back, the panorama of the Buda Hills. It was by way of these stairs that fast pedestrian connection between the Castle and Krisztinaváros (Christina Town), a quarter which had become increasingly densely populated by the end of the 18® century, was established. The only feature distinguishing it from its twin sister on the east is the material of the steps, which are made of red limestone here and wood there.

The man for whom a stairway was named —

Móric Sándor the Devil Rider

Hundreds of young people would regularly be lining up outside the cordoned-off entrance to the Várkertbazár - which was by then "upgraded to Youth Park" - in the sixties. From here a short and steep stairway leads up to Ybl Miklós tér. Although the street sign announced the fact that this was the Sándor Móric lépcső (M. Sándor Stairs), there were few who realised that the original bearer of the name, the daredevil of Reform Age Hungary renowned for his recklessness and deeds of valour, was Móric Sándor, Baron of Szlavnica and Bajna, the Devil Rider himself.

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