BUDAPEST / THE BUDAPEST THERMAL WATERS WILL RESTORE YOUR HEALTH. Circa 1940s.
33x22¼ inches, 84x56½ cm. Athenaeum, Budapest. Condition B+: repaired tear at bottom edge, into image; minor repaired tears and restoration at edges.
Hungary boasts over 1300 thermal water springs, including 123 in Budapest alone. "Hungary's thermal springs were already used and baths were already built in ancient Roman times and medieval Turkish times" (https://dailynewshungary.com/history-hungarian-thermal-baths-bathing-culture/). However, the medical and scientific studies of mineral-rich thermal baths in Hungary came centuries later. Budapest gained its reputation as a "city of spas" in the 1920s, with the expansion of the tourism market and the monetization of this economic draw.
