New free and fascinating Danube beach to open in Budapest? – PHOTOS, VIDEO
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The Római Beach in Budapest, 3rd district, just 15 minutes away from the city centre, has everything to become a popular place to have a bath in the cool river during the hot summers. Though city leadership does not do anything to create a modern plage near the heart of the capital, some local NGOs did so. The result was amazing, and the area has all the prerequisites to become Europe’s best river beach.
Previous Saturday, locals showed that they would really like to have more links with the river flowing through Budapest and to create a new free beach near the heart of the city – reported hvg.hu.
Two NGOs organized a one-day test bathing in the Római beach where the local government has already decided to build a free beach next year. Members of the two organizations
transformed a part of the plage into a beach where everybody could enjoy the cool water safely
in just 5 days. For example, they built a watchtower and placed a home-made buoy row in the river marking the territory where people can swim securely. Of course, the water police and the ambulance were both present during the test day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INPhKMZzrq8
According to hvg.hu, 369 said on Facebook that they will be there, but it is hard to tell exactly how many showed up but there were hundreds of people.
In fact, bathing in the Danube was forbidden in 1973 because its water became extremely polluted. However, the situation got much better since then,
