Budapest baths arose due to the numerous springs with medicinal and thermal water, which rises at the foot of the rugged caves of the Buda hills. The springs that feed its thermal waters of the gellért bath, was used in the thirteenth century. Then around them was built the hospital where the monks treated the afflicted. It was called also and Dirty baths because the water, which is here treated of the diseases of the joints and circulatory system, was muddy from the silt. The hotel Gellert with its thermal bath was built in the art Nouveau style in the early years of the twentieth century, at the Western foot of the gellért hill. To decorate the widely used color ceramics of the Zsolnay factory in pécs.

Turkish baths were built at the healing springs of Buda. In addition to its direct purpose, they were also a place for political discussions and transactions. On the Buda Bank of the Danube remained four baths. One of them is called on behalf of one of its former owners király (King). It had been built by the Turkish Pasha Sokollu Mustafa, about 1570. In the early nineteenth century there was built side wing. Pool in the shape of a polygon and a flat dome dates from XVI century.