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

The construction of the third permanent bridge,

AN EXCLUSIVELY HUNGARIAN PROJECT

The peculiarity of the Ferenc József Bridge-today called Szabadság Bridge-was a silver rivet on the south side of the Pest abutment driven in by the king who gave his name to the bridge at the inauguration ceremony. On Sunday, 4 October 1896, King Francis Joseph drove home, with a few symbolic strikes of a hammer, this not particularly valuThe brand new Ferenc József Bridge

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