Hungarian Spital
In 1617, according to the land register, there were three houses on the site of the building, and in 1666 it was bought by György Széchenyi, bishop of Győr, where the shelter and hospital of elderly citizens of Győr were organized. In 1673, Széchényi entrusted the leadership of the Ispita to the cathedral. In his will, he increased the share capital of the ispita by HUF 5,000, which made it possible that at the end of the 17th century it could already take care of 30 aged citizens of Győr.
In the first third of the 18th century, the building was expanded with additional houses. In 1724, the originally two separate, ground-floor Renaissance buildings were assembled and expanded with an upstairs tract, connecting corridors, and Tuscan columned, loggic inner courtyards. The Jordán accommodation building on the corner of Szent Miksa (Rákóczi) and Szent Sebestyén (Teleki) Streets was demolished, and in the 1730s, the church of Ispita named after St. Anna was built on its plot. In the 19th century, one of the side altars of the church was dismantled, and the main altarpiece was replaced. Only the St. Elizabeth altar was left. The altarpiece depicting St. Elizabeth of the House of Árpád, who protects the sick and elders, is the work of István Schaller from Győr. The church is in its unchanged form, only two circular windows on the western facade were enlarged during the renovation in 1876.
The fine and applied arts collection of Péter Váczy (1904–1994) of art-historical importance was added to the city immediately after the historian's death, in exchange for the life annuity due to the heirs, and the permanent exhibition organized from it was opened in 1995 in the Ispita house, in whose arcade courtyard Miklós Borsos' decorative fountain with the title of Phoenix was erected in 1963.
The building is temporarily closed, as the Magyar Ispita exhibition space will be renovated within the framework of the Interreg VI-A Hungary-Slovakia Program HUSK-2302 program "SmartAcross - Slovak-Hungarian cooperation for the preservation of local artistic and cultural heritage".
