Szablyár Péter: Step by step - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2010)
Splendid steps in the Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library
roofed house and a flat-topped, bastion-like flat-topped building supporting the cylindrical tower. Running around the tower’s curved surfaces is a propped-up stairway leading up to the small terrace at the top, where the flag of the district is fluttering in the wind these days. Holding on to its fine wrought-iron handrails the well-fed patrons of the restaurant below can climb up to the lookout terrace, which affords a splendid view around in clear weather. The Grill Terrace restaurant does its best to acquaint its patrons with the past of Kőbánya. It is worth visiting the tower, which can be reached by bus easily: it is only six stops away from Örs vezér tere. Splendid steps in the Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library If you wish to become a temporary tenant of the Gutenberg galaxy and look for the paraphernalia of a 19th century atmosphere, then you should pay a visit to the renewed central branch of the Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library. You will not be disappointed. Degraded in recent years to the status of building site for the Kálvin tér Station of the new metro line currently under construction, the calm neighbourhood of the Baross utca-Reviczky utca—Névtelen utca area centres on the elegant building of the ■ Spiral stain in the realm of books 6l
