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

Open-air pool in Alfréd Hajós

physical exercise and relaxation for the entire population of Budapest, as well as being a major tourist attraction. In 1975 it was named after Alfréd Hajós.

Császár-Komjádi sports swimming pool 8 Árpád fejedelem útja, District II

Set in the midst of trees, the fifty-metre, open-air Császár Swimming Pool, venue of the 1926 European Swimmers’ Championship, was very popular with the inhabitants of Budapest. It was here that the national team of Hungary was trained by the famous water-polo coach Béla Komjádi.

The pool, having served Hungarian amateur and competitive sports for more than a hundred years, was demolished in 1990 and a 50 metre by 20 competitive pool, a 25 metre by 16 swimming pool and a 16 metres by 6 learners’ pool were built in its place. The swimming pool reopened in 1997, after being fully reconstructed.

Béla Komjádi Sports Swimming Pool, with its 50 metre by 21 competitive pool and 12.5 metres by 7 learners’ pool was built to plans by Zoltán Kelecsényi in 1976 on a lot previously occupied by the Császár Swimming Pool, Császár utca and an adjacent building destroyed by aerial bombardment. The competitive pool has a sliding aluminium roof, and its hall with terraces seating two thou55