Budapest/Hungary
Széchenyi Thermal Bath
Budapest's grand neo-baroque bathing palace, where mineral water fills vast outdoor pools beneath ochre colonnades.
- Source temperature
- 76°C
- Bathing temperature
- 38°C
- Bathing
- Indoor / Outdoor
- Established
- 1913
- Admission from
- €12
Opened in 1913 on the Pest side of the city, Széchenyi remains the largest medicinal bath in Europe and the clearest expression of Budapest's bathing culture.
Balnevia view
Why visit
Monumental architecture, genuinely medicinal water, and a bathing culture that has never become a museum piece.
The water
Thermal water
- Source
- St Stephen's well
- Mineralisation
- Calcium-magnesium bicarbonate, sulphate, fluoride
Facilities
- Outdoor pools
- Indoor pools
- Sauna
- Massage treatments