Budapest is the only capital city in the World which has that many spas. They are worldwide famous, for most of our clients this is one of the reasons why to come to Budapest.

The baths in Budapest have a long, nearly two thousand year-old history. The earliest traces are of various tribal settlements, the former bathing buildings and the barracks are of the 2nd Roman legion in Acquincum part of Budapest - of the province of Pannonia. Then in the years 1178, the Óbuda-Újlak thermal baths named Lukács and Császár were founded. This was used by Saint John’s order to cure the sick - a bath and hospital was here in those times. In later descriptions, the "sick-house" was moved to the foot of the Saint Gellért hill, at the springs of the lower hot waters.

The next great step of the development of the baths of Budapest was brought along by the Turkish occupation - community buildings were built o¬n the healing waters, incorporating a culture of individual bathing. Actually we, after nearly a half millennium, can admire and even can try these Turkish baths. Due to these baths, our capital was rightly named the Mecca of the rheumatics.

The third period in the history of Budapest bathing culture came with the years 1700 - in the first half of the 1700s, there were alrady made studies about the usefulness of the Buda hot springs. In 1772, a decree was issued by Maria Theresia, Queen of Hungary (and Empress of Austria) to have all mineral waters "analysed and recorded in a list at the expense of the Treasury".

In the early 1930s Budapest was awarded the title "Spa City"- as the capital possessing the most healing thermal water springs in the world. At the behest of the Budapest Fürdőváros Egyesület (Budapest Spa City Association), the first International Balneological Congress was organised in Budapest in 1937. The seat of the International Balneological Association was established at the Gellért Thermal Bath in Budapest.

And now, take a look at our spas: