The Mysterious Strawberry’s Garden In Budapest

The park among the villas of Terézváros is one of the most important place of the Hungarian art education, welovebudapest.com writes.

The Strawberry’s Garden is close to Andrássy Street. Its name derives from the strawberry trees, which can be found here. The artist have begun use it from the 1880’s. After the first studio house, more pavilions have been built, most of them stand nowadays too. Alajos Stróbl fixed the place, his students brought the stones of a church on Kálvária Square to Strawberry’s Garden in order to save the building.

According to welovebudapest.com, the majority of the artists bought here, in the Andrássy Street (former Sugár Street) villas. Lendvay Street belonged to the sculptors, Bajza Street for the painters. Emperor Franz Joseph himself visited Strawberry’s Garden many times, and many people held evening partys. Alajos Stróbl organized costume soirees, he built a huge fish pool with fountain in his studio, and he had apes, deers, peacocks and storks in his garden.