Are you curious about the roofs in Budapest? They sometimes have brightly coloured tiles made out of pyrogranite at the end of the 19th century. They were and still are made by Zsolonay.
Annoyingly I walked past the refurbished Dorothea Hotel without popping in. It has magnificent, so Z says, modern Zsolonay tiles. I wonder why this material is not more widely used in other countries?
I’ve got an idea, at least if they were used in the British Isles. They would be considered common, like pebbledash and the ridiculous front doors on former council houses – the ones with a tiny, twee fanlight that proclaims the building is no longer a c h. But in Hungary they are magnificent. What happens in Hungary should stay in Hungary.