N. Kósa Judit - Szablyár Péter: Underground Buda - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2002)

Library half-sunk underground - the National Széchényi Library

■ Ward in he Rock Hospital

the municipality of the Castle District made the forgotten northern parts of the Castle Cave presentable to the public once again in 1996. Near the entrance at No. 8 Dárda utca in the medieval cellar hiding the access point, there is an exhibition covering the history of how the cave was formed and how it has been explored.

Library half-sunk underground - the National Széchényi Library

A system of cellars belonging to the National Széchényi Library can be found beneath the plateau of Castle Hill. These underground rooms are entirely manmade cavities. The National Library was installed in the west wing of the former Royal Palace. Raised on the occasion of the Millenary Celebrations, the building is the newest of those standing in the southern corner of Castle Hill. The new wing sits on a slope of the narrowing hillside on the top of a six- storey high buttress.

The Ybl-Hauszmann wing, where the Queen Elizabeth Memorial Museum and the rooms holding the coronation jewels were also located in the interwar period, was damaged during the siege of Budapest and was deprived of its ornaments and altered in structure in the 1950s and 1960s. When it was

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