Rudas Thermal Bath and Swimming Pool in Budapest

You're standing at the Rudas Baths, on Döbrentei Square, right on the Buda side of Elisabeth Bridge. This is one of the oldest bathhouses in Budapest that's still around. From the outside you mostly see a calm, neoclassical building. It got that look between 1829 and 1831, after a fierce fire swept through this part of town in 1810. But behind that façade hides something much older.