The Blue Church - Church of St. Elizabeth
Art Nouveau church clad in pale blue majolica, with a glazed ceramic roof and slender round tower.
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This guide to the Blue Church in Bratislava follows Ödön Lechner, the Budapest architect who set out to give Hungary a style of its own, in the years when a grammar-school chapel in the city then called Pozsony landed on his drawing board. It touches his partnership with the Zsolnay ceramics works in Pécs and a career that did not go the way he planned. Stand across the street where you can see both the glazed roof and the round tower.
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