We'll go down the hill now. We actually didn't, so it is on the list of things to do next trip. However, you cannot miss this lovely garden, waterfall and statue to St. Gellert since it is in view from the Pest side and the river.
"How did he become a saint?" you might ask. He was one of the Italian priests the Pope sent to Budapest when St./King Istivan called the Pope and suggested they join forces and become part of the Holy Roman Empire. Apparently there were some pagan holdouts in Hungary who put Father Gellert in a barrel filled with nails and sent him down the hill to the Duna and imortality as St Gellert. The "winners" always get to write history (most painfully apparent to me when I saw the General Sherman Sequoia at the National Park in the USA-to my family, General Sherman is practically a swear word!)
KG
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