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Learn about urban history and have a look at the city through the eyes of historians from the Kiscell Museum!

The colleagues of the Kiscell Museum lead guided tours around the city focusing on the buildings, architects, remarkable urban spaces as well as minuscule details that are close their hearts. Please note that the tours are in Hungarian.

21 November 2020 10:00am
Kiscelli to go! Tales about cobblestones - Pavements of the capital

The city grew out of the ground. However astonishing this statement may be, it is fundamentally true when we consider that stones and bricks form buildings and roads. This is also true of Budapest's former roads. Our constantly disappearing cobblestone road surfaces are also gifts of the earth, laid one by one by hard-working hands after traditional carving and later machine processing. In this way, a world-class road network was built, which in 1900 rivaled the technical standards of Viennese roads. It is enough to look at only one photo capturing a larger road, one is struck by the size of the paved surfaces, the abundance of cobblestones. But why was such huge paving work needed? What kind of stones did the hooves of horses clop on one hundred and twenty years ago? What is the story of the gray, smooth, embossed cobblestones on which the carriages once rattled, the rubber tires of cars slipped, the revolutionaries gathered in 1956, and some of which we can even walk on today? The stones tell stories if we pay attention to them.

Meeting point: 
Pollack Mihály Square

Tour guide: 
Álmos Molnár, museologist of the Kiscell Museum


TICKETS

Online in advance on TIXA.HU: 2,400 HUF
On the spot: 3,200 HUF

The ticket is also valid for a visit to the permanent and temporary exhibitions at the Kiscell Museum.