Gál Éva: Margaret Island - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2000)

ished and replaced by new ones; in time the park, too, was restored to its original condition, but admission fees were abolished. When all traces of the wartime destruction had been cleared away, Margaret Island once again became the finest park, medicinal resort and major tourist attraction of Budapest.

Margaret Island in the Middle Ages

Besides the royal court, the first building whose existence is documented by written sources was St. Michael’s Church. The church is likely to have been in place by the late twelfth century as Béla IV refers, in a 1245 and a 1249 document reinforcing his father’s 1225 deed of

The reconstructed 12™ century Premonstratensian chapel

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