Budapest is rich of thermal waters; since ancient
times 123 springs have been used.
These springs have a curative effect on many diseases and provide
luxurious swimming pools and thermal baths with water. The institutions
can be visited all year round. The pools, vapor or Turkish baths,
diverse massages and other treatments promise pleasant moments.
Guellert is the most somptuous of all, built in an early 1900s
oriental style near Guelert ill. It belongs to a big architectural
unit including a hotel, a restaurant, an outdoor swimming pool
with artificial waves and indoor pools of various temperatures
(rom 27° to 38°C), surrounded by dry bath, steam baths
and rooms for massages.
Széchenyl is an outdoor warm swiming pool in the heart
of a gigantic neo-baroque palace, in the middle of the Varosliget
park. There is main pool of 50m long with water at 27°c and
two other semicicular pools on the either side, with warm water
which rises to 34° on the left side and 38° on the right
side.