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

“The bath is in a pretty building whose courtyard is sheltered from the blazing sun by some large trees. Outside the bathing house lies the fine, shadowy park of the Nádorsziget, whose tidy uistas serve as a pleasant walking ground for the public of the capital. Nádorsziget is connected by a fine iron bridge with Széchenyi Island whose band stand is the venue of a gypsy concert every afternoon.

On the first floor of the small bath building there is a glazed corridor leading to the apartment rooms. There are six fine and spacious rooms and a parlour well stocked with newspapers is at the disposal of lodging guests.

There are 20 bathing rooms on the ground floor of the building; in the back is the 20 square-metre communal bath, which can receive 20 to 25 persons at a time; this communal bath is open to gentlemen in the morning and to ladies in the afternoon. In some of the bathrooms there are porcelain tubs, in others they are made of Carrara or red marble. ”

The popularity of the Nádorsziget Artesian Bath increased to such an extent that the issue of extending the bath was raised at the October 1899 session of the Finance and Economics Committee of the City Council.

On 7 May 1909, construction work of the Széchenyi Baths was started to plans by the late Győző Czigler (the

The building of Széchenyi Medicinal Baths in the Liget

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