Horváth M. Ferenc (szerk.): Vác The heart of the Danube Bend. A historical guide for residents and globetrotters (Vác, 2009)
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SIGHTSEEING 223 The Greek Church, today a place of exhibition of the museum acquired the same title. His initials can be found among the wrought-iron ornaments on the facade. The two-storey building at the bottom of the garden (8 Lajos Katona Street) used to be a garden flat dating from the same age. Its reconstruction has not been finished yet, so it can only be seen from the outside. Its next-door neighbour is the former Greek Orthodox Church, which can also be reached through the gate of No 19 Main Square, which leads to a yard surrounded with a peculiar brick wall. The strange situation of the church is due to the fact that the regulations of the age prohibited any kind of church other than Roman Catholic to be built on the main road. One of the well-todo members of the Greek Orthodox community gave his own building site and finan-One of the oldest buildings of the Main Square dal support for the purpose of the church in 1792. Today it is an exhibition place; at the entrance we can read the inscription of the tomb of the donor, who was buried here. The church shares the site with a house whose medieval stone cellar houses a permanent exhibition called Memento mori (literal meaning: Remember death, i.e. Get ready for death). Visitors can see the special objects of the crypt cemetery from the 18th century. The title of the exhibition refers to the inscription that can be read on some of the painted coffins. The most significant secular Baroque building in Vác is the Town Hall built between 1736-1764. On the fagade we can see Lady Justice with two female figures lying at her feet on both sides, holding the coat of arms of Bishop Kristóf Migazzi, the donor and supporter of contemporary constructions The facade of the Town Hall and the statue of Justitia (Lady Justice), the goddess of justice on the highest point of the building I
