Boldog Gizella kápolna
In Boldog Gizella kápolna once stood as Veszprém’s oldest building, a Roman Catholic chapel that belonged to the medieval palace complex. Built in the mid–13th century on the site of an earlier, two-storey structure, it originally connected northward to the adjacent medieval palace between the episcopal sphere and the archbishop’s and provost’s residences—an older palace now entirely gone. Its lower chapel carried 13th-century frescoes of the apostles on the north wall, showing Byzantine influence, while the upper chapel survives in part through its structural elements, including 11 small dragon figures decorating the capitals. Local tradition links the chapel to Queen Gizella, wife of King Stephen, but its current name has been used only since the late 18th century. …
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