Gál Éva: Margaret Island - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2000)

the path. It was here, on a ten-acre area embanked somewhat earlier, that a polo pitch was established in 1928 for players of that most exclusive, the most “genteel” of all sports. After World War 11, in 1960, the company responsible for garden maintenance on Margaret Island turned the area into a park. Among the flowers and ornamental shrubbery we can admire a tulip-tree. A playground, too, was made here for the sake of the numerous children visiting the island.

tip to this point the only reason why it has been worth our while to look to the right has been the beauty of the trees and bushes along the roadway. Now, however, we have reached an important medieval relic of the island, the ruined but tall wall of the former Franciscan church, which was built in the 13th-14th centuries. The wall has not sunk beneath the ground despite centuries of decay, but weathering every misfortune has survived almost in its original shape. For a long time it was not known to which medieval building the wall had belonged. This was only made clear by twentieth-century excavations which showed that these were the ruins of the FrancisThe old Palatínus in the 1920s

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