Gellért Thermal Bath - Spa Information
The Gellért spa is well-known throughout the world,
it is the most popular spa among foreign visitors. Nearly all medical services
of a spa are available, with rheumatology, comprehensive physiotherapy unit
(day hospital), physiotherapy sub-unit and inhalatorium. Besides the
'champagne' and wave pools, the sunbathing terraces for women only and for mixed
naturists are popular as well.
We find
records about the "miraculous" springs spurting up on the territory of the
Bath from as early a date as the 15th century. These springs were later
favoured by the Turks as well, as they were larger and hotter than the Buda
baths of the period. In the 17th century, the site was named Sárosfürdő (Mud
bath) because of the fine spring silt that was pushed up together with the
spring water and settled at the bottom of the pools.
The Gellért Thermal Bath, known world-wide and highly favoured by
foreigners, built in a secession style, opened its gates in 1918 and was
expanded in 1927 by the wave-bath and in 1934 by the effervescent bath. In
the course of the modernisation accomplished in our days, the sitting-pool
in the swimming complex, the outdoor sitting pool and the children's pool
were renovated; they were equipped with a state-of-the art water filtering
and circulation device. At present, nearly all healing facilities may be
used in the Gellért Thermal Bath. The Bath includes a department offering
complex thermal bath acilities (daytime/outpatient hospital), it also has
an inhalatorium.
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