Gerle János: Palaces of Money - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1994)

THE CEREMONIAL STAIRCASE CONNECTING THE UPPER FLOORS

the much needed courtyard. Instead of a central hall, each department in the bank has been given its own room.

And he had other innovative ideas, too. Up to now, issuing banks have stored their coin reserves in the cellars, which required hard manual labour and, as these cellars were located away from the regular operation of the bank, accessing them meant loss of precious time. Alpár, however, has placed the vaults containing coins on the ground

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