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MATTHIAS CHURCH
Parts of Castle Hill's landmark church date back 500 years, notably the carvings
above the southern entrance (Mary Portal). But basically the Matthias Church - so
named because King Matthias Corvinus married Beatrice here in 1474 - is a neo-
Gothic creation designed by architect Frigyes Schulek in 1896.
The church has a delicate spire and a colourful Zsolnay porcelain-tiled roof, which
massive works in the last decade restored to its 19th-century glory. The interior
houses remarkable stained-glass windows, frescoes and wall decorations by Romant-
ic painters Károly Lotz and Bertalan Székely. Organ concerts take place on certain
evenings (usually Friday and Saturday at 8pm), continuing a tradition dating from
1867 when Franz Liszt's
Hungarian Coronation Mass
was first played here for the
coronation of Franz Joseph and Elizabeth.
Steps in the southwestern corner lead up to theRoyal O
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al Arrtt(Mátyás-templom Egyházművészeti
Gyűteménye), included in the admission fee, which exhibit ornate monstrances,
reliquaries, chalices, lamps and censers as well as replicas of the Crown of St Stephen
and other items of coronation regalia.
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