Buza Péter: Spring and Fountains - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1994)

who leave the trodden path to follow modern tastes. The twelve warriors of the Cohors Fountain in Március 15. tér, the figures by István Tar invoking the heroes of Contra-Aquincum, a Roman site excavated here, are symbolic rather than naturalistic. Similarly, the mermaids across from the Széchenyi Baths in Városliget, dancing in the water to the Panpipe music played by their faun, do not resemble in the least, for example, the fairies of the Sió. This is not to mention the new Zugló water sculpture at the intersection of Columbus utca and Kacsóh Pongrác utca. This is devoid of any trace of fig- urality-the fountain, standing here since 1979, designed by Zoltán Bohus and Béla Hámori, has glass and basalt profiles reflecting the rays and bathing in strange lights.

One of the newest fountains - statue by Ádám Farkas - in Budapest in the Gazdagrét housing development

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