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The city and its magical natural surroundings have inspired and translators. The magazine Nyugat (West) was edited

many artists over the centuries. However, only a few have cho- here several times. Their guests all left their signatures on the
sen Esztergom as their second home. In 1924, poet Mihály autograph wall of the small house. It is no longer a secret that
Babits and his wife, Sophie Török, bought a small one-storey the guests who were unpopular or not really appreciated in
press house on the hillside above the town, which later be- literature were given a softer drawing pencil and their names

came one of the centres of literary life during the period be- were erased from the wall, while the important signatures
tween the two wars. The poet spent almost all of his spare time were preserved by Sophie Török. Since then, the autograph

at the villa in the foothills, and almost sixty of his works can wall has been restored several times, and the cott age, the for-
be connected to his house in Esztergom. Babits participated mer press house, serves as a museum. Th ose who climb the
in the everyday cultural life of the city, held reading evenings street named after the poet to visit the house immediately

at Hotel Fürdő, wrote poems about the primate’s seat and the understand why Babits fell in love with the panorama that
wise basilica, and was the host of many writers, poets, artists, unfolds from here.

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