Király Street
Historic thoroughfare of design shops and cafes hiding a fragment of a wartime ghetto wall.
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This guide to Király Street in Budapest centers on a stretch of brick wall behind a gate at number nineteen, a surviving fragment of the boundary that sealed off some seventy thousand Jewish residents in the winter of 1944. It traces the street's earlier, gentler life too, back to a seventeen-eighties inn that gave the street its name through several changes before it settled as Király utca, and its later heyday as one of Pest's grand shopping boulevards lined with textile merchants and tailors. Best walked slowly, café terrace to gate, rather than rushed past.
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