A legendary spa reopened in Budapest – Photos, VIDEO!

The mineral water that can be found in the Pesterzsébet spa is unique in Hungary since it contains not only salt but also iodine and bromide. Furthermore, the buildings serving the demands of the bathers are very modern, so it is absolutely worth a visit for everybody who wants to relax or enjoy the summer on a cool Budapest beach.

A unique spa and beach

According to index.hu, the spa does not have a long History dating back to the Ottoman times but its early 20th-century ancestor built near the Danube was already very popular in the bathing community of Budapest. Only later was it discovered that the ground hides a tremendous amount of mineral water containing not only salt but also bromide and iodine

like in only 1 or 2 other places in Hungary.

By the 1930s, the Pesterzsébet spa already had many swimming pools and even a fun pool with a unique pool wave generator. In the 1950s a new bath building was erected in the style of the Turkish baths like Rudas or Király – nobody knows how the Communist leadership could enable it. Since the spa and the beach created around it were very popular among local people, it functioned until 2005 and was reopened only this week after a total renewal. Here is a video on how it looks like now:

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In fact, the most spectacular part of the new complex is the bath building. It is a general trend in Budapest that architects try to build spaces around the beaches that can be open during the whole year because this is how spas can have income and staff every month. Since the district already has a swimming pool,the local leaders wanted to create a bath with wellness section, pools that can be used by children,

spaces for relaxation and healing services.

The difficulty of the task was to create 1,000 square metres of usable bathing space for the public and hide twice that space for ventilation and machines.