Literature

Gyula Krúdy

1878–1933Local figure

Addresses you can still visit

Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.

Burial place
Fiume Road Graveyard
The most famous and one of the oldest cemeteries in Budapest.
Created here
Former Belvárosi Café at Matild Palace
Krúdy regularly worked in the Belvárosi and composed a substantial part of his Sindbad stories there.
Created here
Former Fiume Café
Krúdy frequented the Fiume and incorporated its characters and key-throwing legend into his writing.
Lived here
Former Meteor Hotel and Café
Krúdy also lived for a time in the former hotel above the café.
Commemorated here
Király Street 25–29 Heritage Houses
He recalled Ungerleider’s Király Street café projections in his 1917 novel Autumn Journey in the Red Post-Chaise.
Lived here
Krúdy Memorial Rooms at the Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism
He lived in these rooms during the last three years of his life and died here in 1933.

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