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After the Matyas Church, the most transfixing sight is the Fishermen's Bastion ( Halaszbastya ) just beyond, which frames the view of Pest across the river. Although fishermen from the Vizivaros reputedly defended this part of the hill during the Middle Ages, the existing bastion is purely decorative. An undulating white rampart of cloisters and stairways intersecting at seven tent-like turrets symbolizing the Magyar tribes that conquered the Carpathian Basin, it was designed by Schulek as a foil to the church. The view of Pest across the river is only surpassed by the vistas from the terrace of Buda palace, and the Citadella on Gellert-hegy. Between the bastion and the church, an equestrian statue of King Stephen honours the founder of the Hungarian nation, whose conversion to Christianity and coronation with a crown sent by the pope presaged the Magyars' integration into European civilization. The statue is reflected in the copper-glass facade of the Budapest Hilton , opposite, along with the church and the bastion. Incorporating chunks of a medieval Dominican church and monastery on the side facing the river, and an eighteenth-century Jesuit college on the other, the hotel bears a copy of the Matyas Relief from Bautzen in Germany that's regarded as the only true likeness of Hungary's Renaissance monarch - who is shown being crowned by a pair of angels.
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