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If you head towards Szentharomsag ter, there's more to be seen on Orszaghaz utca , which was the district's main thoroughfare in the Middle Ages and known as the "street of baths" during Turkish times. Its present name, Parliament Street, recalls the sessions of the Diet held in the 1790s in a former Poor Clares' cloister at no. 28, where the Gestapo imprisoned 350 Hungarians and foreigners in 1945. No. 17, diagonally across the road, consists of two medieval houses joined together and has a relief of a croissant on its keystone from when it was a bakery. A few doors down from the former parliament building, Renaissance sgraffiti survive on the underside of the bay window of no. 22 and a Gothic trefoil-arched cornice on the house next door, while the one beyond has been rebuilt according to its original fifteenth-century form. The adjacent Uri utca (Gentleman Street) also boasts historic associations, for it was at the former Franciscan monastery at no. 51 that the five Hungarian Jacobins were held before being beheaded on the "Blood Meadow" below the hill in 1795. Next door is a wing of the Poor Clares' cloister that served as a postwar telephone exchange before being turned into a Telephone Museum ( Telefonia Muzeum ; Tues-Sun 10am-4pm; 100Ft). The curator of the museum strives to explain the development of telephone exchanges since Tivadar Puskas introduced them to Budapest in the early 1900s - activating a noisy rotary one that's stood here since the 1930s - and you're invited to dial up commentaries in English or songs in Hungarian, check out the webcam and internet facilities, and admire the personal phones of Emperor Franz Josef, Admiral Horthy and the Communist leader Kadar. Further down the street on either side, notice the statues of the four seasons in the first-floor niches at nos. 54-56, Gothic sedilia in the gateway of nos. 48-50, and three arched windows and two diamond-shaped ones from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries at no. 31
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