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

Water Towers

WATER TOWERS

There are dozens of towers providing Budapest with fresh drinking water. Following are the ones of the greatest architectural or historical interest.

The water tower of the old National Theatre

No. 3 Csokonai utca, District VIII

Approaching the busy square called Blaha Lujza tér, one catches sight of a tower conspicuously rising above the blue faqade of the National Hotel. The peculiar

■ The water tower when it wad visible

a system of walkways, open-air gyms, bonfire facilities and playgrounds, this wildlife area of 327 hectares has been converted into ideal recreation grounds for city-folk. On one of its promontories at an altitude of 332 metres was built a steel-frame observation tower. Climbing up to its terraces at 4.6 and 12 metre heights, one can have a good view of the surrounding area. To reach the tower, designed in 1983 by the company Agrober—Mezőti, one has to walk down a path flanked by columns commemorating Hungary's leading natural scientists, writers and conservationists (Péter Beretzk, István Fekete, Ottó Herman, Károly Kaán, and Kálmán Kittenberger).

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