Watch out for the wonderful posters of happy workers waving to a fat bald R kosi, Hungary's Stalin, as he leads them forward to Socialism. The ruins of her Dominican nunnery still stand on the island's east side not far from the remains of a Franciscan church. In summer the island is jammed with people heading to either the Haj s Alfr d swimming pool or the Palatinus Strand to swim and splash about. The Haj s pool complex includes a diving pool, an open-air pool and a children's pool. At the Palatinus Strand, as well as at the Thermal Hotel Margitsziget, there are thermal baths fed from springs on the island.
Several relics survive from the island's time as a religious centre.
On the east side are the ruins of the Dominican church and convent, where there is a shrine to St Margit herself. Further north is the Premonstratensian Chapel, orginally built in the twelfth century on an older site and reconstructed in 1930-31. Lazier visitors can ride in a horse-drawn buggy. For all its central location, Margaret Island feels pleasantly distant from the city. Private cars are banned and the island is the ideal place for an afternoon spent strolling among the 10,000 trees.