Budapest is famed for its saunas and spas and they don’t get more atmospheric than the Rudas built by the Turkish Ottoman invaders in the sixteenth century. And it’s still pulling in the punters for a ritual scrub down and sweat 400 years later. There’s a swimming pool but it’s really the sauna and steam that you come here for. Step back in time as you enter the stone built central spa with a bejewelled original cupola above the main pool. Its tiny red, turquoise and golden glass fragments beam down shafts of light onto the pool; plunge pools are dotted around; men practice pull-ups on the bars; others play chess as their banter echos off the centuries old walls.
Mens, womens and mixed days. Separate charges apply to pool, steam and saunas.
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