Framed by the Bastion’s arcades stands the statue of János Hunyadi—father of King Matthias and famed “Turk-slayer”—by architect Schulek and sculptor István Tóth (1861–1934), unveiled in 1903.
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Trivia
The daily noon bell was first ordered by Pope Callixtus III in 1456 to commemorate Hunyadi’s victory over the Ottomans at Belgrade; ever since, church bells ring at noon across Christian Europe.
