Outer Ring, Budapest Nagy körut

The development of rescue operation techniques during the 100 year history of the Hungarian ambulance service is displayed including the portable iron lung used at the time when poliomyelitis was endemic.

The WestEnd City Center has over 400 shops, developed by Canada's TrizecHahn corporation, the architecture is both futuristic and imposing. The Hilton WestEnd Hotel and a pleasant roof garden are incorporated into the center.

The Café New York (formerly Café Hungária), a favorite rendezvous of writers, publishers and various well-known personalities during the first thirty years of this century, is on the ground floor of the Palais New York built by A. Hauszmann, K. Giergl and F. Korb. The Neo-Renaissance building was severely damaged during the Second World War but has been restored. The Late Eclectic interior architecture is much admired.

The imposing Joseph Town Parish Church with its twin towers was built at the end of the 18th C in Late Baroque style to plans by J. Thalherr. Since then it has been altered on several occasions. Some fine examples of ecclesiastical art include the High Altar by József Hild and the reredos, the "Apotheosis of St Joseph", by the famous Viennese painter Leopold Kupelweiser. On the façade, between the twin towers, can be seen a statue of St Joseph by L. Dunaiszky.In front of the church stands a monument by Péter Pázmány to the Bishop of Esztergom and founder of the University of Tyrnau, the precursor of the University of Budapest.On the other side of Baross utca lies Horváth tér, named after the Catholic Bishop and Minister of Culture of 1849. His memorial is the work of A. Domján (1948).