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

The Vigadó at the end of the 19th century (before it stands the Hangú pavilion)

commissioned to prepare the plans of such an establishment. In 1860, the National Directorate of Architecture approved Feszl’s designs, and on 15 January 1865 one of the most interesting architectural complexes of the Pest embankment, the Vigadó was inaugurated. The building, whose Romantic style was made peculiar by its mixture of strange Moorish elements, featured external sculptural orThe embankment under construction

OUTSIDE THE VIGADÓ IN 1866

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