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A few minutes on down Kaptalan utca brings you to the back of Vac's Cathedral on Konstantin ter. Chiefly impressive for its gigantic Corinthian columns, Migazzi's church is a temple to self-esteem more than anything else. Its Neoclassical design by Isidore Canevale was considered revolutionary in the 1770s, the style not becoming generally accepted in Hungary until the following century. Migazzi himself took umbrage at one of the frescoes by Franz Anton Maulbertsch, and ordered The Meeting of Mary and Elizabeth , above the altar, to be bricked over. His motives for this are unknown, but one theory is that it was because Mary was depicted as pregnant. The fresco was only discovered during restoration work in 1944. From the Cathedral you can head along Muzeum utca to Geza kiraly ter, the centre of Vac in medieval times, where there's a Baroque Franciscan church with a magnificent organ, pulpits and altars.
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