Prohászka László: Polish Monuments - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2001)

Loüis the Great on the Millennium Monument

which decorate several buildings. Completed in 1865, one of the most famous listed buildings in Budapest, the Vigadó is marked by an unique style and atmosphere, which is further refined by a number of statuettes decorating its fagade. Although the building was almost completely burnt out in 1945, its external decorations, including a series of limestone portraits of historic personalities of the nation, were relatively well preserved. These include a sculpted head of Louis the Great, a work by Károly Alexy made in 1863-64.

The Parliament building stands a few tram stops away from the Vigadó. One of the largest and architecturally most appealing parliamentary buildings in Europe, designed by Imre Steindi in the neo-Gothic style, it is decorated by nearly two hundred sculptures, both inside and outside. Rising from the upper part of the northern entrance a statue of Árpád the Conqueror can be seen, while the southern entrance

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