Budapest - Margaret Island Margit-sziget
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Margaret Island (Margit-sziget), barely 2.5km (1 1/2mi.) long and up to 0.5km (1650ft) long, is undoubtedly the main local recreation and recuperative center for the people of Budapest. Thermal springs, feeding the medicinal and swimming baths, space for sports and games, carefully tended gardens and paths, and not least the remains of buildings which play a significant part in the history of the town all serve to attract many visitors every day.
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History
The Romans utilized the supply of thermal water in the north of this island in the Danube. In the 12th and 13th C monasteries and churches were built here. At the end of the 18th C the Habsburg Archduke John, Palatine of Hungary, had the island landscaped.
At the end of the 19th C a thermal bath with a pump-room was built, but this was damaged in the Second World War and after the war a modern spa center was established including the fashionable Hotel Thermál, opened in 1979.
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