Gellért Baths - Global Citizenship Summer School (sitios de interés)

The history of the Gellért Baths streches to the times of the Ottoman rule in Hungary as they were built in the fifteenth century. They were established in a place where a hospital was located in the Middle Ages. The baths were exteremely popular among the Turkish population of the city owing to the healing qualities of the springs. The Gellért Baths were also called Sárosfürdő which means ‘muddy’ since the mineral mud settled at the bottom of the pools. The complex was rebuilt in 1912 and 1918 and then again after the Second World War.