The BRB Guide to Budapest “Majestic though in ruin...”

Those wishing to add gratuitously to their stock of melancholy experience could do worse than take a walk along the busy, southern section of Lánchíd utca known as Ybl Miklós tér. The west side of the road is flanked by a shamefully neglected ruin, in its heyday a conscious evocation of architecture in the hanging gardens its creator would have seen on his first Italian journey in 1841, and which had once existed on the western slopes of Castle Hill in the reign of Matthias Corvinus.