Bodor Musical Fountain, Musical fountain on Margaret Island, Hungary

The Bodor Musical Fountain stands at the northern end of Margaret Island in Budapest, near the Árpád Bridge. It is a circular domed structure on a low oval base of pale stone, with two light-stone staircases and dark metal handrails. Six dark columns carry a shallow green-grey segmented dome with a white rim and a small finial; a plaque on the base dates from 1997.

The design goes back to Péter Bodor, who built a music pavilion in the 1820s in what is now Târgu Mureș, Romania. That original structure was lost over time, but the concept was revived on Margaret Island in 1936 in the form of a musical fountain.

The fountain is also called the Bodor Well, after Péter Bodor, the Transylvanian inventor behind an earlier musical well in Marosvásárhely. A memorial plaque placed on its side by the city council in 1997 explains that speakers hidden in the well play period music on every full hour.

The fountain sits in the northern part of Margaret Island and is easy to reach on foot from either end of the island. Evening shows are worth the visit, as the lighting changes how the whole display looks compared to daytime.

The structure is also called the Bodor Well, after Péter Bodor, the Transylvanian inventor behind the original musical fountain in Marosvásárhely (now Târgu Mureș). Speakers hidden inside play period music on every full hour, a detail noted on the memorial plaque placed on the side by the city council in 1997.