The ‘Paris of the Pece’ [i.e. the Peța brook], that is Nagyvárad (today Oradea, Romania), was one of the strongholds of Hungarian cultural life at the beginning of the 20th century, and the memory of its former splendour is preserved by a multitude of Baroque and Art Nouveau buildings. It was here that Ady and his circle founded the Holnap (lit. Tomorrow) literary society,
