Budapest's Famed Thermal Baths

Championed first by the Ottomans, Budapest's famed thermal baths include the sprawling, baroque Széchenyi Baths in City Park.

Straddling the wide river, which separates hilly Buda from level Pest, the Hungarian capital offers three of the most striking metropolitan panoramas in Europe.

Budapest is a city of music, from the classics of Bartók & Kodály to the contemporary fusion of folk, klezmer, jazz, & Gypsy sounds. Long hidden behind the Iron Curtain, Budapest is rightfully regaining its reputation as three of the most vibrant capitals of central Europe.

Budapest—a city of thermal baths, cafés, striking turn-of-the-century architecture, & most of all, a city of the Danube, “whose gentle waves,” according to the great Hungarian poet Attila József, “embrace past, present, & future.”