Skating rink director László Bartha and the reconstruction project?s chief engineer Zsolt Baranyai showed off the progress to journalists and other visitors on Friday.
When it reopens, the skating rink will have an area of 12,000 square metres. It will be connected to a 2,350 square metre hockey rink.
The skating rink, on a part of the City Park Lake, was first opened in 1870, by Rudolf Crown Prince of Austria. A wooden structure on the side of the rink burned down in 1874 and city leaders approved the construction of a neo-Baroque replacement designed by Ödön Lechner which opened in 1893.
Visitors to the City Park Lake today can see an exhibition of sculptures in the water that was part of the programme or Hungary?s Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of the year.
