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

The equestrian statue of Kino St. Stephen (Alajos Stróbl, 1906)

thought that the statue would have a more fitting place in the square outside St. Stephen’s Basilica, it was finally built here in the Castle District. Even though the impressive, mounted male figure wearing a mantle and a crown holds a cross in his right hand, the rectangular plinth, itself recalling a pagan altar, features reliefs on its sides depicting the monarch involved in activities which have as much to do with the political act of founding a state and achieving power and glory as with converting the Magyars to Christianity.

The plinth was made to designs by the same Frigyes Schulek who restored the Matthias Church, which therefore blends into the architectural environment and the surrounding complex of monuments.

Beneath the southern tower of the Fishermen’s Bastion is a plaque indicating the spot where the small St. Michael Church, the mortuary chapel of the Church of Our Lady, once stood. The Schulek (earlier Jesuit) Stairs go down to the Víziváros, or Watertown quarter

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