This sumptuous art nouveau building facing the Danube across V Széchenyi István tér, with its gold tiles, mosaics and celebrated wrought-iron Peacock Gates, was built by an English insurance company in 1907. It now houses the luxury Four Seasons Gresham Palace Hotel.
Gresham Palace
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