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

Bird’s eye view of the No. 2 tram and the promenade

from 1945. It was exhibited in the Kommunálexpo held at the Budapest International Exhibition Centre in 1993; ever since it has been kept in the courtyard of the office building above the People’s Stadium station of the Budapest underground. As the cast iron fence on a limestone base around the park was restored as early as 1983, Senyei’s work can return to its original environment.

it is also envisioned that the aluminium lamp posts currently standing on the promenade be replaced by slim cast iron standards with spherical lamps already planned in the thirties.

Finally, the passage by Márai quoted at the beginning of this work should be continued, as his works are as valid today as they were when he first set them to paper:

“‘Dunacorso!’ they say with a foreign accent; and we shouid accept it that we own something worth a fortune which has the potential of becoming a global attraction.

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