Szatmári Gizella: Walks in the Castle District - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2001)

One of the houses built on medieval foundations (No. 10 Táncsics Mihály utca) ornaments the gate of No. 24. Inside the gateway there are sedilia of a presumably Medieval origin, and upstairs on the vault, also of Gothic style, a 14th-century mural depicting dancers has been discovered (the wall-sec­tion featuring the latter was separated and added to the Budapest History Museum where it is now on display). The weather has made sure over the years that lit­tle of the external painting and other decoration sur­vives on the surfaces of the buildings. An exception is the upper facade of No. 16 Táncsics Mihály utca, which dates from around 1720. A group painting of Christ and the Virgin Mother surrounded by saints is faintly vis­ible in a stucco frame here. No. 13 is noted for having been the residence, from 1918, of the poet Árpád Tóth who, at the time no more than the assistant editor of the radical literary maga­zine Esztendő established by Lajos Hatvány, was accom­modated here by his friend Gyula Havas, a fellow-native of the provincial city of Debrecen and a journalist working for the legendary journal Nyugat. This is where Tóth’s daughter Eszter was born. She later recalled that the house was then owned by the famous French jewel­13

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