The baths of Budapest now and then through the eyes of foreigners

Budapest is one of a kind in the sense that no other capital city in the world has 123 thermal springs, on which several baths were built – popular among people from abroad too.

Termalfurdo.hu has collected some things that tourists loved about the baths of Budapest from the past and the present.

Compliments from the past

In the 17th century an English medic, Edward Brown, regarded the baths of Buda as the best baths of Europe, commending their beauty, equipment and interior design. Another Englishman from around 1669-1670 commented that “There are many baths, and I have tried them several times. I found the bath of Veli bej the most beautiful one.”

In the 19th century someone wrote about the Rácz Baths found in the 1st district in the following way:

“What a cheerful, noisy bath was this in my childhood! And the mists and scents that filled the air there…”

In 1852 Imre Palugyai described the Lukács Baths in this way: “it has few basins, which are used for healing purposes by the land workers coming from the rural area”. Later, when it was the meeting place of artists and intellectuals, Palugyai wrote that “the Lukács Bath fulfils roughly the same purposes as the literature coffee houses or the bars frequented by the intellectuals did some time ago.”

Compliments from the present

Foreign travel websites suggest travellers visit the Budapest baths during the weekdays, because they are cheaper int hat period and because they are absolutely full on Saturdays and Sundays. It is also highlighted that these baths can be accessed and used with wheelchairs too, except for the Király Baths.

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