Where in Hungary is the bathhouse?
Responses information department of "Tourism Thinness"
In Hungary about 70% of the territory has healing and thermal waters: there is no such thing on Earth anywhere else. In total there are about 60 thousand sources in the country, 1152 of them with temperatures above +30 C. And if Hungary itself is called an empire, its capital Budapest is considered a city of baths. There are 130 springs with medicinal water, which give more than 70 million liters of water per day with a temperature of +24 ° C to +78 ° C. Altogether there are 27 baths, of which 13 are therapeutic baths
The largest and most famous bathhouses in Budapest:
- Gellert Bath is the most beautiful bathing place in Budapest, one of the symbols of the city. Here are used the waters of 10 sources - hydrocarbonate-sulphate-chloride, calcium-magnesium, containing fluoride.
- Széchenyi Bath: recently reconstructed magnificent medical bathhouse, built in Neo-Baroque style. Having 15 swimming pools, they are among the largest bathing complexes in Europe. This was the first swimming pool in Budapest with water from a deep-hole well (from a depth of almost 1000 m)
- Rudas Bath: on a sunny day, there is a delightful atmosphere when rays penetrate through small colored windows in a domed roof. The bath is fed by 15 thermal springs (+35 ... +42 ° C), radon, hydrocarbonate-sulphate-chloride, sodium-calcium-magnesium waters.
- The Lukach bathwater feeds on waters from several self-draining springs and thermal wells (+21. .. +49 ° C) of hydrocarbonate sodium-calcium-magnesium waters. The medical center at this bathhouse has balneotherapy, physiotherapy, mud bathing, massage and underwater tracts.
- Kiraj Kupala: One of the most beautiful bathing places in Budapest, preserved since Turkish rule. This is a real Turkish bath in which the schedule of men's and women's days is preserved
In addition, in Hungary there is the only cave therapeutic bath in the city of Miskolc-Tapolca in Europe, and the most famous lake in Europe is Hoviz natural volcanic origin with hot treatment water (+33 ° C). The medicinal waters in Hungary are used not only for bathing, but also for drinking treatment
12 February 2014
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