Gellért Hill - Gellért Hotel and Thermal Baths

(Local Name: Gellért-fürdo; Hotel Gellért Gyögyszálló) After having been renovated this famous medicinal baths and hotel complex is now one of the finest of its kind in Budapest.

There was a medicinal spa here as early as the 13th C. According to the chronicler Evliya Celebi of Istanbul the Turks extended the establishment and converted it into a luxurious health spa. It was also very popular with the Habsburg rulers.

After this building had been pulled down at the end of the 19th C the new one we see today, combining hotel and baths under one roof, was built in Secessionist style between 1911 and 1918 to plans by A. Hegedüs, A. Sebestyén and J. Stark. The opulent entrance to the baths lies on Kelenhegy út, while the hotel and café open onto Szent Gellért tér. The therapeutic bathing and treatment facilities have been excellently renovated and modernized since 1983 (covered thermal bath with sliding roof, jacuzzi, Turkish baths etc.) together with open-air facilities which include a thermal bath with wave-making equipment designed on ultra-modern technical lines.