Built in 1910, the old Telephone Exchange Building in Józsefváros is an impressive structure adorned with reliefs of classical figures tracing communications through the ages: Mercury, homing pigeons and that newfangled invention, the telephone. It's being converted into a hotel and residential block.
Józsefváros Telephone Exchange Building
Budapest
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