Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace Budapest
Art Nouveau palace of peacock ironwork, reborn as a riverside luxury hotel after decades of decay.
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This guide to the Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace in Budapest traces the building from its 1907 origins as the headquarters of a London insurance company, built with peacock-shaped iron gates by ironworker Gyula Jungfer and stained glass by Miksa Roth. It follows the palace through the winter of 1944, when a nearby bomb blast tore off its gates and Soviet soldiers camped inside, and through the decades of communist rule that followed. You'll hear how the building's grand apartments were carved up and left to crumble for years afterward. Stand beneath the peacock gates and look for the ironwork's old scars.
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