Liszt Ferenc Square

Liszt Ferenc Square – Broadway Association

The cafés and restaurants in Liszt Ferenc Square are not night clubs, they represents secure and time of high standard for the tourists and locals too. The square famous for its gastro culture and you can find here the famous Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music.

For 12 years Broadway Association has been working to suit the needs of Liszt Ferenc Square’s visitors. They would like to color the grey common days, want to make people smile and happy and bringing some culture into their life. It’s like that a long time in other big cities like Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Prague, Wien and London. They want to save all the buildings and public spaces in the Square and also they would like to create new value, develop the environment so people has a clear, secure, ordered place to have fun and enjoy culture.

For their results they were awarded with „Budapestért” prize and they are very proud of it!

Our Mission

We want to do a little more color to the gray of everyday life, a lot of smiles, fun and culture to take in people's lives. Restaurants, cafes, safe and pleasant time working the Liszt Ferenc Square offer both tourists and the local population.

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Sights

The Art Nouveau building of the Academy of Music, completed in 1907, was designed by Flóris Korb and Kálmán Giergl, and the aesthetic world of the interior is defined by the red granite and eosinmosa panelling of the Zsolnay porcelain factory, Miksa Róth's mosaics and stained glass windows, and Aladár Körösfői-Kriesch's frescoes.

The Art Nouveau apartment building at 5 Liszt Ferenc Square, built in 1907 to a design by Emil Vidor, is made fabulous by its stained stained glass and burgundy glazed tiles.

The statue of Ferenc Liszt playing the piano, the sculpture by László Marton, the architect József Finta and the architect József Finta Jr.

The statue of Attila József, with the poem "The inventory is ready" on his posthumous monument, by Ferenc Gyurcsek

Statue of Endre Ady, by Géza Csorba

Interesting facts about the street

This area was once the site of the Spanish Valero family's castle-like silk factory, now known only from old engravings, and the strawberry trees that were essential for silkworm farming.

In the 1930s, the Japanese Café, where today's Writers' Shop stands, flourished, with stained glass windows, walls covered with tropical plants, Japanese woodcuts and bird porcelain tiles, and a colourful array of artists and writers, from Attila József to Sándor Bródy and Lajos Kassák.

The square was home to the city's last street weigher, who could tell you your exact weight for 30 pennies.

The Great Hall of the Academy of Music is also known as Apollo's Island; in several places in this hall we could catch sight of Apollo's bird, the swan, known for the wonderful swan song he sang at the time of his death.

The inner courtyard of the house at 10 Liszt Ferenc Square holds a special secret, as it is the place where the ornamental fountain, the Terézváros Maiden, formerly located on Jókai Square, was moved.