Józsefváros Telephone Exchange Building

Budapest


Built in 1910, the old Telephone Exchange Building in Józsefváros is an impressive structure adorned with reliefs of classical figures tracing communications through the ages: Mercury, homing pigeons and that newfangled invention, the telephone. It's being converted into a hotel and residential block.

Transportation

  • tram: 4, 6
  • metro: M4 Rákóczi tér

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