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Freitag, Januar 19, 2007
The arcade buildings
There is are two prominent buildings that one reaches directly from the
entrance following the main avenue into the center of the cemetery. They
are called the arcade buildings and they were designed by Lajos Gerle.
On both sides of the long stretched buildings there are tombs of wealthy
hungarian citizens partly with rich decoration and sculptures. This
couple is covered by a thick layer of gray dust which evokes a strong
feeling of passing time. It is dificult to describe the atmosphere
around those tombs as quite a number were broken and their covers moved
partly aside. It was reported that still some thieves would come at
night and would break into the graves of famous people hoping to find
something valuable.
The arcade buildings were built between 1870 and 1911. In this period
also the other big mausoleums for Batthyány ,Deák, Ganz and Kossuth were
erected.
Apart from the interesting tombs on both sides there are beautiful
mosaics on the ceilings of the halls at each end.
