Faurest, Kristin: Ten spaces - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2010)

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site of a church destroyed during Turkish rule. The castle was finished by the third generation, Miklós, in 1746. The building complex seems to have undergone one misfortune after another and to this day has never been given treatment worthy of its architectural value. It was later taken from Miklós’s widow, and at the end of the 18th century restructured in an unfortunate way, including warehouse buildings, an additional floor, and the destruction of its ornamental gates. There are many old maps that just refer to it as a warehouse of sorts. In the 19th century it was used for storage of clothes and tobacco, and further abused in 1954 when part of it was torn down to make way for the HÉV commuter railway. It is worth walking into the courtyard to visit its two museums — the Kassák Múzeum (named for Lajos Kassák, literary figure and theoretician of the early 20th century avant-garde whose works included poetry, billboards, design, novels and paintings) and the

■ The óurest sign of the end of winter: al fresco dining

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