Castle of Eternal Love
To truly love means to make the person you love happy. Unfortunately, eternal love is rare in our lives, so stories about this magical feeling are carefully preserved by people all over the world.
In the center of Hungary is the small town of Szekesfehervar, which in translation into Russian means “white throne fortress”. This is the former residence of the Hungarian kings and the place where many of them found peace. But not only the royal history attracts tourists here, they go to listen to a completely different story.
It began in 1905, when Yeno Bori, a student at the Faculty of Arts, was walking down the stairs and noticed a pretty girl with a mysterious half-smile on her face. Without saying a word, they went on, hand in hand, down the street and through life. A few years later they got married, and in 1912 Jeno bought a small house in the vicinity of Szekesfehervar. Then the talented architect and artist had a bold idea to put the whole world at the feet of his beloved.
The war delayed its implementation by 10 years. And in 1923, the master was finally able to announce to his wife Ilona about his intention to build a castle in which all architectural styles would harmoniously merge, all the achievements of world art, expressing the idea of eternal love.
The neighbors, who found out about this plan, only snickered and shrugged their shoulders, considering Jeno an eccentric. Only Ilona, when meeting with them, lowered her eyes out of her habit, and the same mysterious half-smile froze on her face. She was generally very quiet. Eyewitnesses claimed that they had never seen the Bori spouses talking: they walked only embracing, Ilona's head was invariably bowed to her husband.
The couple believed that true love opens a person to other languages, in front of which vain human words lose all meaning. A declaration of love in one of these languages was the beautiful castle that Jeno built stone by stone for 14,600 days, almost 40 years of his life. He became the only person in the history of the world who single-handedly built such a structure.
Now Bori Var Castle is a favorite place for tourists and lovers. It is believed that couples who visit this place will never be separated. This “magic” is quite natural: a place literally saturated with great love will be able to share its sacred energy with visitors for a long time to come.
The Castle of Eternal Love is a majestic building in which Gothic, Renaissance and Romanesque styles coexist miraculously, without at all causing a feeling of gaudy eclecticism. On its territory there are more than 500 works of art created by the hands of Jeno himself, his wife and daughter. In every room, every courtyard there are numerous images of Ilona, the author's works of the artist Bori.
Between the two towers at the entrance to the castle hangs the sword of Damocles, reminding those entering the true values of human life. The courtyard is surrounded by a gallery supported by a hundred columns, it houses statues of heroes, thinkers and artists who glorified the Hungarian people.
Above the entrance to the inner chambers is the inscription: “Love is God. God is love". Nearby are two niches in which there are busts of Jeno, whose gaze is riveted to the image of his wife, and Ilona, who habitually lowered her eyes and folded her lips in the same half-smile. She was embarrassed when Jeno expressed her feelings in front of strangers and asked not to do this, but the happy lover was adamant and did not get tired of repeating: “All the beauties of the world, immortalized by brilliant artists, would envy you - I love you so much!”
The chapel became the heart of the castle - a real temple of love and family relationships.
On its central wall there is a picturesque and sculptural composition, where Ilona is depicted in the image of the Holy Madonna.
And behind her back, yellowed with envy, beauties froze, in which it is difficult not to recognize Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Raphael's Fornarina, Rembrandt's Saskia and Rubens' Helena Fourment.
At the feet of the Madonna is an angel bowing in bow, in the image of which Bori portrayed himself.
For all 40 years, Jeno Bori, who built the "castle of dreams", glowed with happiness. His imagination was inexhaustible, creative energy gave him wings. One by one, all his wishes were fulfilled. He wanted to make his beloved the happiest of all women living on Earth - and he did it.
God fulfilled his dream of a daughter, like two drops of water similar to a mother, beyond all expectations: Ilona gave birth to twins, Ilona's daughter became an exact copy of her mother, and Clara inherited her father's character and talent. Also, the dream of happy parents about a hussar came true, which, according to Jeno's playful conviction, arrives in this world, unlike other children, riding a stork.
The walls of the castle keep the whole history of the life of the Bori family. The walls of the rooms are covered with photographs showing Jeno and Ilona visibly aging. Only one thing remains unchanged: the tenderness in their glances at each other is timeless.
The year 1959 was both the date of completion of the construction of the castle and the end of the earthly journey of the remarkable master Jeno Bori.
Ilona outlived her husband by 15 years, during which she began every morning by walking around her property. After the morning ritual, she raised her eyes to the sky and smiled enigmatically again. She did not cry at the funeral: everything in the castle told her that her husband was here, nearby. Shortly before his death, Jeno ordered graves for himself and his wife. At a great depth, he asked to make a window between them. When the grandchildren asked the grandfather about his strange whim, he replied: “This is so that my grandmother and I can talk, remember you.”
They do not forget their grandparents and 20 grandchildren and great-grandchildren who agreed to take turns living in the castle, keeping the fire in the great family hearth, illuminating and warming with their Love everyone who wants to know the power of true feelings.
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