Horváth M. Ferenc (szerk.): Vác The heart of the Danube Bend. A historical guide for residents and globetrotters (Vác, 2009)
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240 SIGHTSEEING The Pointed Tower At the upper part of the walkway (Liszt Ferenc Promenade), in line with the Viennese Gate, we can find the Pointed Tower. It is the only overground medieval building of the town which survived the Ottoman era. (Under the ground there are nearly one hundred stone cellars from the same age.) The locals simply call it Hegyes ("Pointed”). In the Middle Ages it was one of the watchtowers on the town wall. Later it was used as a district prison then there were plans to convert it into a museum. Today it is a private house. Near the ferry drive stands the statue of St John of Nepomuk, which is a replica of the original one that used to decorate the former Baroque footbridge here. Like in other waterside towns, St John's name day was celebrated in Vác too by the people earning their living by the Danube. Nowadays a short commemoration is held at the statue in the middle of May every year. On the corner of Eszterházy Street leading up to the Main Square there is a gaudy example of inappropriate reconstruction of a monument. The Chief Constable's District Office was built The way down to the ferry at the beginning of the 19th century Eszterházy Street in 1887 The way down to the ferry with the statue of St John of Nepomuk in the 1910s The Promenade today The icy flood of 1940 The building of the former Chief Constable's Office, today an elderly people's home The upper section of the Danube bank built into a Promenade in 1964
