The Vitéz House

In the western wall of the main square, roughly "at the same height" as the musical fountain next to the Orbán Tower, a one-story, gable-roofed, now tiled townhouse stands in a closed row. The romantic and neo-Gothic building, which has a palace-like appearance and incorporates elements of several architectural styles, was built for himself and his family by the landowner György Vitéz in 1849, with the architect József Fischer. Previously, three medieval houses stood on its site, which were built together in 1807. ; The most spectacular element of the symmetrically constructed main street facade is the neo-Gothic, pointed arched gate, the unplastered surface of which, carved from stone, merges with the protruding, stone-lattice parapet, first-floor balcony and the double, neo-Gothic, stone-lattice window opening behind it. Above, in a square cartouche, the emblem of the Vitéz family can be seen: a tent, above it a six-pointed star, and next to it an armored knight holding a mace in his right arm. From the upstairs rooms, eight more similar, evenly arranged, pointed arched windows open onto the street. ; Originally, shops were also set up on the ground floor. Unfortunately, all the historical windows on the ground floor facade have now been replaced with modern, worthless ones. The building has a long courtyard at the back, along the northern and southern borders of which a half-gabled courtyard wing, much simpler in design than the street wing, was built. The western part of the house has a facade on Mészáros Street. ; Today, the house is owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Košice.