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