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Jewish cemetery
Izraelita temető • VIII, Salgotarjáni út 6 • Mon-Fri & Sun 8am-2pm • Free
Next to Kerepesi lies an overgrown
Jewish cemetery
, with some beautiful Art Nouveau
tombs of artists, politicians and industrialists, several designed by the brilliant architect Béla
Lajta. That of
Manfred Weiss
, founder of the Csepel ironworks that once dominated the in-
dustrial island south of the city centre, is still maintained by Csepel's council, in gratitude
and by way of apology for the fact that Weiss had to sign his factory over to the government
in return for being allowed to leave Hungary with his family in 1944. The cemetery gates are
on Salgótarjáni út, about ten minutes' walk from the main entrance to Kerepesi.
Ferencváros
Ferencváros
was developed to house workers in the latter half of the nineteenth century, on
the same lines as the more bourgeois Józsefváros. During the 1930s and 1940s, its population
confounded Marxist orthodoxy by voting for the extreme right, who returned the favour by
supporting the local football team
FTC
- popularly known as “
Fradi
” - which became the
unofficial team of the opposition under Communism, subsequently known for its hooligan
“ultras” (for more details, see section on
football
).
Corvinus University
Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem • VIII, Fővám tér 8 • Trams #2, #47 and #49
Standing at the Pest end of Szabadság híd, the
Corvinus University of Budapest
makes a
fine sight from Buda at night, reflected in the river, and adds to the liveliness of the area by
day. The building was originally Budapest's main
Customs House
(Fővámház) - hence the
name of the square and the adjoining section of the Kiskörút,
Vámházkörút
. The university
