Porhászka László: The Danube Promenade - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1998)

The Pest embankment was given, perhaps in compensation for the removed Danube Wind, another work by Pátzay. The sculptor had been commissioned in the early fifties to produce an equestrian statue entitled The Sports Rider, which was meant to decorate the People's Stadium station of the then planned underground railway. The work featured the realistic figure of a twentieth century athlete standing mounted on a horse shaped in classical fashion. However, the cast bronze, 125% life-size composition waited years to be appointed an appropriate place, until it was eventually set up at the southern corner of the then empty Eötvös tér in 1958. In 1979 it was once again removed, this time because of the construction work for the future Forum Hotel. Today it stands in Gyula Germanus Park near the Buda end of Margaret Bridge.

In the late 1950s, the promenade came back to life. A

The Sports Rider by Pál Pátzay in the park

WHERE THE DEMOLISHED DUNAPALOTA HAD STOOD

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