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

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Replica of Pátzay’s statue Danube Wind OUTSIDE THE INTER-CONTINENTAL

promenade that from 1972 on it was from the Petőfi statue that demonstrations departed on 15 March, organised by the political opposition to counter official celebrations of the event. (In September 1993, the statue was temporarily removed to be briefly restored.)

As traffic was banned from the area in front of the hotels and the whole promenade was returned to pedestrians, many began to miss Pál Pátzay’s statue Danube Wind, which had, in 1978, been moved from the Dagály Spa to the Hungarian National Gallery, an altogether more appropriate place. During reconstruction work in August 1994 a replica was placed on the promenade, the original remaining in the National Gallery. Since its original location, the junction of Türr István utca and the promenade, had disappeared with the construction of the Hotel Duna Intercontinental, and as the junction with Szende Pál utca was already occupied by the Seaman’s Monument, Pátzay’s work was erected outside the main fagade of the

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