Porhászka László: The Danube Promenade - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1998)

(today József Attila) utca on 1 May 1881. From twenty- three at the start, the number of subscribers grew at an amazing speed and included, needless to say, the elegant hotels on the promenade.

Traffic on the promenade was increased by the passenger boats putting in at the wharf. After the First Danube Steamboat Company (DGT), 1872 saw the establishment of the Budapest Propeller Ferry and Sailing Company (CSÁV), which only carried passengers across the Danube between Pest and Buda. The crossing boats sailed from and arrived at the wharf by Vigadó tér. River navigation played an essential part at the time due to the fact that before the opening of Margaret Bridge in 1876, the only permanent crossing facility between Buda and Pest was the Chain Bridge.

The limits of the Danube promenade were marked by a monument at each end until the early 1900s. The first of these was Adolf Huszár’s statue of Baron József Eötvös,

Adolf Hcjszár’s Eötvös statüe (behind it the facade of the Hotel Atriüm-Hyatt)

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