The Bridge Report, which brought a turning point in the history of Budapest
A travel report that changed the history of Pest and Buda, as well as Hungary. The little book contributed to the change of half a thousand years of legal customs and the implementation of an investment of unprecedented size and technical quality. This book was The Bridge Report [Hídjelentés in Hungarian].
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János Bobula designed the building of the 150-year-old secondary school in Pest
August 10, 2022 at 4:03 PM
150 years ago, in 1872, education began at the Secondary Training School of the Royal Hungarian Teacher Training Institute, i.e. today's ELTE Trefort Ágoston Secondary Training School. In the first 15 years of the institution, it did not yet have an independent building, they moved from one rental property to another. In the 1880s, the Minister of Religion and Public Education, Ágoston Trefort, commissioned János Bobula Sr. to design the school building that still stands today at the corner of Szentkirályi and Trefort Streets, which was handed over 135 years ago, in 1887.
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The Bridge Report, which brought a turning point in the history of Budapest
A travel report that changed the history of Pest and Buda, as well as Hungary. The little book contributed to the change of half a thousand years of legal customs and the implementation of an investment of unprecedented size and technical quality. This book was The Bridge Report [Hídjelentés in Hungarian].
Drama on the university wall - The heroic monument was planned 95 years ago
In the constant hustle and bustle of the Egyetem Square in Pest, the students may not even notice the monument that decorates the short section of wall between the church and the central building of ELTE. However, it commemorates their predecessors, the heroes who fought for their country in World War I, and those who heroically helped them. The first design of the dramatically collapsing soldier was born in 1928, ninety-five years ago.
A message from the former school: An exhibition in memory of János Neumann was opened at the Fasori Secondary School
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