Meskó Csaba: Thermal Baths - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

The building of Császár Baths in the 1870s

every intention it is to make it into a watering place of European renown. ”

From the above-cited study Budapest fürdői és ásványvizei (The Baths and Mineral Waters of Budapest, 1891) by Zsigmond Gerlóczy and Vilmos Hankó we learn that of all the Budapest baths, the Császár Baths had the largest premises in the period and that they contained these units: a steam bath built in Turkish times, whose pool filled with mineral water could be used by 50 bathers at any one time; a mud-bath with its separate men’s and women’s sections, where water was at a constant temperature of 40°C, while the mud was kept at an unchanging temperature of

THE BATH FROM THE DANUBE - AROUND 1890

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