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The Palatinus Outdoor Baths

Palatinus Strandfürdő

Protected monument. Built by Istvan Janaky in 1937. The one-story, flat-roofed dressing complex consists of: two rectangular buildings connected by a two storey, columned,- open from street front,- hall with gallery. There are two spiral cases, which lead to the western front terrace. The pools of the beach is: an octagonal fountain pool (located at the entrance), wave pool (to the south), a big pool (north of the fountain pool), a thermal water pool (further north). There is a snack bar (on Danube side of the Big Pool). In front of the entrance is the Sun Girl/Combing Woman (Napozó lány/Fésülködő nő) stone sculpture made by Géza Csorba, in 1937, recarved after 1945. Many works of art located in the beach area: Mother with child (made in stone, by Sandor Farkas Boldogfai, at the axis of the entrance), a well decorated with a woman holding a jug (by Peter Laszlo, north of the dressing room building), shells decorations (Sandor Kiss, at the south side corners of the big pool), five bronze gargoyle heads (by Sandor Kiss, in 1967, at the north side of the big pool), a mosaic (1967, at the south end of the event pool).

Address
Margaret Island (Margitsziget), Soó Rezső sétány
Getting there
: Nyugati further Bus 26 on the Margaret Island (Margitsziget) or tram: 4, 6 further Bus 26
Price
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Listing from Wikivoyage: Budapest/Angyalföld, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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