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Matyas kut - Matthias Fountain

Buda Castle, District I, Budapest, Hungary

 

On the left as you are about to enter the last courtyard of the palace where the Szechenyi Library is housed, stands the intricately worked and majestic scene of King Matyas hunting. He is surrounded by his dogs and retainers, with Szep Ilona ("Beautiful Ilona": a peasant woman who fell in love with him unaware that he was the king) gazing up at him. It was sculpted in 1904 by Alajos Strobl. It is now in a miserable state of corrosion - an insult to this majestic piece of statuary. At the onslaught of World War II, the statue was disassembled and parts of it were hidden in people's gardens for safety.

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