Gellért Hill Cave
A short hop up the hill reveals a cave with a surprising vocation. The Gellért Hill Cave, or Sziklatemplom, is a Catholic church carved into the rocks of Gellért Hill, and it’s been a chapel and monastery since the 1920s. The first modern entrance was designed in the 1920s by architect Kálmán Lux, with Pauline monks drawing inspiration from Lourdes, and the site was consecrated in 1926. For a stretch around WWII, it even served as a field hospital for the German army, a striking twist for a rock-cut church. The cave’s identity is tied to Saint Ivan’s Cave—Szent Iván-barlang—and to a hermit who is said to have used the nearby natural thermal waters to heal the sick, waters that fed the pools of the old Sáros fürdő, now renamed the Gellért Baths. …
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