Buza Péter: Bridges of the Danube - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

bridge indeed generated a decent profit. Although Sina had the right to collect toll first for 97, then for 87, years-according to the first and a second con- tract-eventually it was hardly more than twenty years for which they collected the frequent pennies. The contract included an important condition. The city bound itself not to construct another permanent bridge any closer than one Hungarian mile (i.e. 8 kilometres) either upstream or downstream

The two branches of the Danube playing hide-and-seek

French elegance and simple structure: the bridge of St. Margaret

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