Szatmári Gizella: Walks in the Castle District - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2001)

Pallas Athena, protectress of the city

Matthias and designed by Chimenti Camicia and leading from the ‘City Well’ spring in Béla király útja, District XII) was a figure of Si. Ignatius ordered by Antal Hör- ger. With the dissolution of the Jesuit order, the statue was removed. It was this well that Adami intended to embellish with his sculpture, a gesture probably meant to be offered in exchange for his hotly desired citizenship, following which he hoped to gain lucrative orders. The sculpture was in fact completed and set up, and yet Adami was not granted citizenship. Removed from the well, which had been discontinued as part of a city-development project, the statue went missing for a while to reappear in 1928. In 1965 it was resculpted, and the original was moved to the new City Hall in Pest.

At the side of the Old Town Hall, Szentháromság utca (see Walk Two) leads to Úri utca; this in turn leads north in the general direction of Bécsi kapu tér, which was the start of Walk One. Having looked at the Burg

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