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

Stairs that have gone missing

■ National ótairway to the chapel of the catacomb of the Hunsarian roiette

The controversy was settled by the FIABCI prize awarded on 21 May 2009 to the architects involved. Dominating the ten-building complex are the national colours with the redbrick facing of the fagades, and the high arching tops covered with green metal roofing. The chapel sunk beneath ground level in the centre of the enclosure surrounded by the Csobánc House, 135 Baross utca, the Csobánc Yard, the Orczy Office Building, and the Orczy House was completed in 2006. The chapel is meant to serve as a memorial site worthy of the events whose memory it stands guard to: the revolutions of 1848 and 1956. The word catacomb in its name, together with the fact that it is half hidden in the ground, is a reminder of the nation's failing collective memory and the weakening of the patriotic spirit. A walk down its stairs is highly recommended.

Stairs that have gone missing

Alajos Hauszmann’s demolished stairs in the Castle Garden

The system of retaining walls, its stairs, its ornamental well, exquisite wrought-iron gates and fences in the southwestern section of the Castle Garden all fell victim to the period of reconstruction of the royal palace starting, after World War II, with extensive archaeological digs. These object used to close off the palace gardens on

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