Szablyár Péter: Sky-high - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2007)

Churches; Towers; Domes

window beneath a tower. One can, however, climb on by way of a steel-frame spiral of stairs getting higher and higher above the civic quarter of the castle district. Already the first, but even more so the second, storey affords a splendid view. Looking north one can admire the colour majolica roof and slim pinnacles of the National Archives. The street-plan of the civic quarter appears to make perfect sense from here.

The glockenspiel in the tower was a major tourist attraction in the 1990s. It is regrettable that the tower affording such a beautiful panorama is once again closed to the public and the ground-floor exhibition halls stand empty.

Traceries in the Square of Roses - towers on the Church of St. Elisabeth of the House of Árpád

Rózsák tere, District VII

Citizens of Erzsébetváros (Elizabeth Town), a district that was developing by leaps and bounds in the late 19th century, commissioned Imre Steindl - the architect who had built Hungary's Parliament — to design a new church for them in what was called the Cattle Market (later Poorhouse) Square. The foundation stone was

■ The church'd towers in a &ea of rooftops

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