Vörösmarty Square
Grand square anchored by a marble poet statue and a legendary nineteenth-century pastry house.
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This guide to Vorosmarty Square in Budapest follows a confectionery shop from Henrik Kugler's 1858 coffee house through the 1880s, when Kugler brought in a young Geneva confectioner named Emil Gerbeaud to build it into a Habsburg-favorite institution of silk walls and crystal chandeliers. It traces the shop through Gerbeaud's death in 1919, his widow Eszter keeping the doors open for two decades, and the communist nationalization of 1948 that stripped his name from the building. You'll hear whose name replaced it, standing in marble at the center of the square since 1908. Have a coffee and look up at the facade.
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