File:Hungary-02077 - Saint Gellért and Elizabeth Bridge (31671122184).jpg
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Statue of Saint Gellért In the eleventh century, Gellért, the Benedictine Abbot of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, was on his way to Palestine but was detained by the country's King Stephen, who asked the bishop to stay and help convert the pagan Magyars to Christianity. After Stephen's death, in 1046, insurgents who wanted a return to paganism captured Gellért in Buda. According to legend, he was sent to his demise in a barrel pierced with nails and rolled down the steep hill. In 1904 the monument was erected at the site where Gellért met his death. Elizabeth Bridge was named after Queen Elizabeth (not the English Queen) but the spouse of Francis Joseph I who was assassinated in Geneva in 1898. When completed, the old Elizabeth Bridge had a middle span of 290 metres, allowing it to lay claim to "the bridge with the largest span in the world," title it held for 23 years. The bridge was blown up in WWII, a new bridge was from 1960-1964. |
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| Author | Dennis Jarvis from Halifax, Canada |
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