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52  INTRODUCING BUD APEST

Budapest’s Best: Baths and Pools

Budapest is one of the great spa cities of Palatinus Strand Árpád híd
Europe. Numerous natural hot springs With ten swimming pools,
hot springs, water slides
pour out over 80 million litres (18 million gal) and a restful location on
of richly mineralized water every day. The Margaret Island, this
greatest concentrations of natural springs spa is perhaps the most
are situated in Óbuda, near Gellért Hill, on beautiful in Europe. N É PF ÜRD Ő U TC A
the Buda embank ment near Margaret VÁ C I Ú T
Bridge and on Margaret Island itself. Baths
have ex isted here since Roman times, but
it was the Turks who best exploited
Budapest’s natural resources. Today there Margaret
is a wide choice of therapeutic and ÁRPÁD FEJEDELEM ÚTJA Island LEH E L UTCA
recreational baths and pools.
KÓS KÁROLY
SÉTÁNY
Hajós Olympic Pool
The pool was designed by
Alfréd Hajós, who won Hungary’s
first Olympic gold medal for ANDR Á SS Y ÚT
swimming in 1896, and on the VÁ C I Ú T D ÓZ S A G YÖ R G Y Ú T
walls of the swimming hall hang Margit híd THÖ KÖLY ÚT
SZENT
gold-engraved marble plaques ISTVÁN KRT
citing Hungary’s numerous AROUND
Olympic champions. VÁROSLIGET
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MA R GIT K Ö RÚ T FŐ U . u BÁTHORY U. A N D RÁ SSY Ú T
PARLIAMENT
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NORTH OF
THE CASTLE ID. ANTALL JÒZSEF R. E R Z SÉ BET K Ö R Ú T
DISTRICT
JÓZSEF
ATTILA U.
CASTLE Széchenyi CENTRAL RÁKÓ C Z I Ú T
DISTRICT lánchíd PETŐFI S. U. PEST
AT T I LA Ú T
Lukács Baths JANE HANING R.
These 19th-century J Ó ZSE F K ÖRÚ T
thermal pools are open KR ISZ TINA KÖRÚ T KÁROLYI M. U.
all year round, and
attract both tourists and Erzsébet híd
the locals of Budapest. M ÉSZÁROS U .
HEGYALJA ÚT
GELLÉRT
HILL AND KÖZRAKTÁR U.
Király Baths TABÁN
Dating from 1566, these
baths were built by the Turks
and have many authentic
Ottoman features. BARTÓK BÉLA ÚT

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